This is my blatent attempt to get traffic on my blog, because I feel that the more than 500 articles on the blog give our readers a very different perspective.

1. Use lists to help other blogger.
2. Concentrate on a topic. Be topical. Posts that have to be read right away.
3. If you the expert in your field people will want to read your articles.
4. Be the first. Break news.
5. Articles on history can be read many times over. Write posts that will be readable in a year.
6. Encourage others to blog on the same topic that you were the first one to discuss.
7. Knowledge in Power. Open kimono policies. Share, share and share. Share your expertise so people recognize you and depend on you.
8. Announce news and provide analysis on it.
9. People have a short attention span.Write brief, pithy posts.
10. Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list.
11. Don’t write about your your personal stuff, your cat, your boyfriend or your kids.
12. People searching for specific information go to blogs. Write long, definitive posts.
13. Be sneaky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog.
14. Eulogize others. Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back.
15. Your blog should be professional. Include polls, meters and other eye candy.
16. Use a lot of tags. Tag your posts. Use del.ico.us.
17. As an expert coin a terms.
18. Publish email interviews with the celebreties.
19. Be responsive. respond to comments. Answer your email.
20. Use photos. Be professioal but salacious ones are best.
21. Be anonymous in some areas.
22. Encourage your readers to digg your posts. (and to use furl and reddit). Do it with every post.
23. Post your photos on flickr.
24. Encourage your readers to subscribe by RSS.
25. Start at the beginning and take your readers through a months-long education.
26. Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.
27. Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
28. Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo lens.
29. Point to useful but little-known resources.
30. Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers–like gadgets and web 2.0.
31. Write about Google.
32. Have relevant ads that are even better than your content.
33. Don’t include comments, people will cross post their responses.
34. Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.
35. Run no ads.
36. Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle.
    Write about blogging.
37. Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
38. Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction.
39. Post on weekdays, because there are more readers.
40. Write about a never-ending parade of different topics so you don’t bore your readers.
41. Post on weekends, because there are fewer new posts.
42. Don’t interrupt your writing with a lot of links.
43. Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.
44. Edit yourself. Ruthlessly.
45. Don’t promote yourself and your business or your books or your projects at the expense of the reader’s attention.
46. Be patient.
47. Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.
48. Ping technorati. Or have someone smarter than me tell you how to do it automatically.
49. Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive.
50. Write in English.
51. Better, write in Chinese.
52. Write about obscure stuff that appeals to an obsessed minority.
53. Don’t be boring.
54. Write stuff that people want to read and share.