Alot of people join the top sites list in hopes to bring lots of new promised traffic to their site but rarely do these top sites do just that. Most of you are more concerned about what your ranking is rather than finding new blogs to read. So that means less new readers for you too. Top sites lists generally bring in traffic to the top sites list and they rank well in the search engines from all the incoming direct links from all of us that have put the code on our site. So, basically only the first page or so of blog top sites is getting traffic.

After reading this post, I decided I’d jump on the bandwagon that is blogtopsites.com and sign up my blog. I figured I’d could use a new comment or two since I’ve been lacking in the getting of comments lately. I’m assuming, though, that it’s more due to my boring posts than my lack of traffic. I’ll blame it on the fact that I’m just not that interesting.

Anyway, I signed up two days only to realize that my blog was in the 500′s. Is anyone actually looking in the 500s? I don’t think so…

To be exact, I started out as blog #559 2 days ago. I figured that it would take me, oh, about 5 years to get to the front page and by that time no one would even be reading blogs. Hell, no one may be reading blogs in 2 years. Who knows?

Well, surprise surprise! I woke up this morning with a #55 ranking. That’s some crazy formula they are using. It’s only taken me 2 days to “almost” get on the first page. Now I know it is screwed up but maybe there is something to Kristen’s formula seeing as I’m getting lots of good sex lately.

Anyway, if you want more traffic to your blog or sites, don’t rely solely on top sites scripts. Here are a few tips for more FREE traffic.

1.) Article Marketing. Article marketing is all about writing articles and submitting them to the hundreds of article directories out there. You can get your articles, of any kind, posted for free on these sites. What’s great is that you can put your byline and a link back to your site on every article you submit. Article marketing helps you in several ways and you can read more HERE

2.) Link. Create a reciprocal link blogroll with other sites like your own. It’s that simple. If you don’t want a long blogroll on your main page then put it on another page or even create a link directory.

3.) Blog and Comment frequently. Fresh unique content on your blog is great. Search engines love new content. Commenting helps bring more visitors to your site and chances are that some of them will find you and stay.

Ok. Enough lessons for the day. If you already knew all of this, I’m sorry to rehash it here but I think many of you could benefit from it.