I always thought that increasing the traffic to your blog always depends on the quality of the content, but I was wrong. Quality of the content only matters if it is discoverable by the readers. After reading a lot of tips and tutorials and making some of the suggested changes just double the traffic. I am still a novice when it comes to SEO but I would share which i have found useful till now.

According to my understanding the top 5 important things should be

1. Quality of the content
2. Taking your content to the people who would be interested in it
3. Share it with the like minded readers
4. Make the content searchable to attract first time visitors
5. Unique content helps rather than just re-sharing
6. Try to solve a problem, probably the ones which you faced

Here are some of the articles and blog posts which will definitely guide you in increasing the traffic to your blog.

1. 10 ways to improve blog traffic [problogger]

• Create link clusters within your blog
• Rework HTML title tags of trafficked posts
• Invite your readers to connect with you on StumbleUpon and Facebook
• Save your best posts for the best times of the week
• Stop writing about yourself. Start solving problems
• Subscribe to the feeds of your industry’s major players
• Give a great post to a prominent blog

2. 10 tips to improve blog traffic [cashbulge]

• Your blog needs to be visually appealing. Kick clutter to the curb
• Work, edit, and re-work your content
• Don’t slack, post new stories/articles often
• Submit to Social Bookmarking websites
• Write compelling titles – capture the reader in the first line

3. 20 sure ways to improve your blog [realtrix]

• Make a habit of posting regularly in the blog
• Write on controversial topics that arouse the interests of the web visitors
• Try to blog out breaking news first. It increases the popularity and creates an authentic image in the web community
• Show the topmost posts in the your blog which received great popularity. This will bear evidence of your blog’s authenticity and significance

was down due to non technical reasons and this is just an attempt to Refresh it. Was a long outage but i had my fair share of reasons …

been busy lately on prof. front

travelled quite often

watched a lot of TV

ate a lot of food .. i mean a lot ..

gained weight

tried swimming regularly, failed miserably

-do- tennis -do-

captured lots of images, but many are still lost in the workflow somewhere

learnt quite a bit on Portraiture and creating HDR images

moved blog to Ranta’s server

got a haircut

liked Goodness Gracious Me

had a minor surgery, dear Nippo was more interested how anesthesia feels

back to watching cricket after IPL happened, go Rajasthan, Mohali, Delhi !!!

on to friendfeed these days (or shared items on google reader), really demotivating for blogging

will try to keep the posts coming, till then have some “Wah Taj” pics

Lets hope for a good time here