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Traffic is important for a blog as it’s part of the PR factors, and also for blogs that serves ads campaigns. Or simply just - you want someone (new visitors possibly with same interests) to come to your blog, appreciate your posts, etc…

You can increase your blog traffic in many ways such as:

• Join social networking (eg. MyBlogLog) community or social bookmarking (eg. StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, etc..)
• Join forums, directories.
• Visiting blogs and participate in discussion (leave comments, but don’t spam)
• Create events like blog contest.

Now, there’s some cool things that you won’t want to miss it, just to draw traffic to your blog.

TrafficJam.com, now in public beta, is a new media for you to increase blog traffic. It is powered by BlogRush, hence it’s using LIVE DATA from the BlogRush Network. If you want to get your blog post listed in TrafficJam, all you need to do is to sign up an account in BlogRush and leave the rest to TrafficJam.

Some quotes from TrafficJam:

Here’s Why You Should Definitely Visit TrafficJam.com, Bookmark It, And Visit Often…

For marketers, this is the ultimate research tool. You can monitor blogs by niche and keep up with what type of posts are getting the most interest across the Web. This will make it incredibly easy for you to know what type of blog posts you should be making to get more traffic, interest, and popularity for your own blog.

Now you’ll never run out of ideas for new blog posts!

This research data can help you identify untapped keywords and other opportunities.

This site is essentially a LIVE HEADLINE TESTING MACHINE!!! (by topic)

You can use ideas from the data to increase click-rates on AdWords ads and more.

You can use TrafficJam.com to find great blog posts for your niche. You can share links to these posts with your readers and they’ll appreciate it. (The nature of the blogosphere.)

You can also discover some new blogs in your niche that you never knew existed. These can turn into potential joint venture partners, or simply just another site to occasionally share some traffic and links. You’ll want to consider participating (properly, of course) on their blog comments to drive traffic to your blog.

Another nice widget that may generate traffic to your blog is EntreCard. A lot of bloggers are using this too. It’s basically like a business card that represent your blog. Whenever you go to a blog that have this EntreCard widget installed, you can leave your EntreCard there.

Once approved, your EntreCard which link to your blog will appear on that blog. You can read more information in Limadang.com.

Best of all, it’s FREE to sign up an account there.

What’s up next? The following will be really a great benefit for Malaysian bloggers. If you are a Malaysian blogger and wish to draw more local traffic to your blog, then you really should not miss this out.

BlogMalaysia.com is a blog directory created by Malaysian. All blogs listed there are actually manually approved before listed in the directory. It’s still very new and FREE to join.

Quoted directly from BlogMalaysia.com:

BlogMalaysia - is a human edited web directory that invite bloggers around Malaysia to submit their blog addresses help promoting their blogs to gain higher search engine results and publicity. All listings are reviewed by humans and listed on major search engine friendly web pages. To ensure maximum exposure to your blog, we have advertised BlogMalaysia in some PageRank 4 websites (PhotoMalaysia.com & ShaShinKi.com), when people visited us, they visited you!

Why BlogMalaysia?

• Free!

• Featured Blogger

• High PageRank (we have advertisement of BlogMalaysia in some high PR websites)

• Detail Statistics (Statistics of your blog at Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alexa)

• Free publicity/promotion to your website. Did I mentioned FREE?! Yes!

There’s also a BlogMalaysia forum which you can join and discuss issues on blogging. A great way to make new friends and get blogging knowledge.

This is a very cool one either. RockYourVote.net is Malaysia’s news and discussions social bookmarking site which works like any other social bookmarking site. Just that it’s localized. Once again, can draw local traffic to your blog. Registration is free too. Check this out to know more about how it works.

Last but not least, if you are a Kuching blogger, please join us at KuchingBloggers.com. You will never expect that there’s so many bloggers around in Kuching!

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