Most of you are blogging for money. When a person invests for their future, they don’t just invest in one fund, they diversify their interests. That’s a smart strategy in today’s market and it’s just as smart to invest your time to develop several different sources of traffic to your blog! Let’s discuss this, bloggers! Read on as I show you how to increase the readership on your blog by 20 percent, simply by diversifying your blog’s traffic sources!!

Try not to obsess over Google. Traffic from search engines is fine. Every blogger should develop and execute a well-thought-out strategy to optimize their blog for the search engines. Just don’t obsess too much over SEO-derived traffic. You should be actively involved in cultivating several other sources of traffic.

Comment on other blogs! Take the time to carefully READ the blog that you are going to comment on. Get a feel not only for the general tone of the blog you are reading, but also for that blog’s audience! Remember that this is NOT your blog; this is someone else’s blog. When you comment on another blog, you are in effect a guest blogger of sorts. Make the most of this opportunity!! Read the blog first, then carefully comment. Comment substantively (add something to the conversation) and not only will you receive traffic back to your blog, you may find that the blog author will ask you to post on their blog!!

Read and comment on blogs related to your niche! There is much to be gained by reading and commenting on blogs outside your niche. You will learn new things, and as a result of that learning process you will develop new topics to blog about. You’ll meet new people and develop new peer relationships that will bear fruit down the road! You will attract new readers and as they become engrossed and riveted to your dazzling articles, they will act as new small and large communications channels for your brand, creating buzz in the blogosphere for you and bring even more readers to your blog.

Read, observe and post on forums. I’ve mentioned this in an earlier post, but I’m gonna bring it up again: Post on forums! Join, read, observe, and post on not only forums associated directly with your brand, but also with forums whose readers would stand to benefit from and would be interested in what you have to say. For example: To all you bloggers out there, Hit the Writing forums! Join them, carefully read them and observe the posters, watch how they interact, be sure to read the rules!!!, and then ease yourself into the conversation! You will make new friends, you will develop new peer relationships, and you’ll receive more traffic back to your blog!!

Help others on the Internet whenever you have a chance!! If an opportunity presents itself, do help out another person on the forums or on a blog!! If you help another person, I guarantee you that person will check out your blog. Plus, it feels great to help out another blogger, commenter or fellow poster on a forum! If that person just happens to have access to a big communications channel……..

Get involved in a group writing project like 31 days to building a better blog!! These groups are a LOT OF FUN!! Believe me, I know!! I am SO ADDICTED to ProBlogger.net’s current group writing project that I wish it would be extended out to December 31!!! It’s really enjoyable participating in these groups, you learn a lot, you get to meet so many first-class writers and bloggers and you secure major exposure for your blog and brand! Just take the plunge and go for it! What have you got to lose? Nothing!! What have you got to gain? Everything you ever dreamed for your blog!! You might even land a guest blogging gig on Darren Rowse’s blog! Skellie did!! You can too!! Check out her brilliant post, How to Draw StumbleUpon Users Into Your Blog, at Problogger.net! Go ahead and give this your best shot and REACH FOR THE STARS!!

Win exposure for your brand by hitting the social networks! Start a page on MyBlogLog, Facebook, MySpace, BlogCatalog, and many others! Meet other bloggers! Build new relationships! You will receive a steady stream of new visitors and readers to your revolutionary blog from the social networks! This is a HUGE topic that I will blog about in another article.

The blogging world is in transition! Ride the Micro Blogging Wave to success!! Check out Steve Rubel’s post, When Less Is More and More Is Less. Get a Twitter account, and a Jaiku account, and get MeeboMe! Use these applications on one of your social networking pages and engage in Micro Blogging! Twitter a summary of one of your articles! On MeeboMe you can micro blog and discuss topics with visitors in real-time!! This can be a fantastic way to build interest in your blog!! I’ll discuss Micro Blogging in another article!

By engaging in a reasonably well-thought-out startegy to optimize your blog for search engine traffic, posting in blog comments of blogs both within and outside your niche, reading, observing and posting on forums inside and outside of your niche, by consistently helping others on blogs and forums, getting involved in group writing projects such as Darren Rowse’s 31 days to building a better blog, hitting the social networks and engaging Micro Blogging, I’ll guarantee you that you will experience at least a 20 percent increase in readership within a month! You will reach an astounding number of readers this way and all it will take is one person who has a 5,000-reader newsletter and/or a major blog with thousands of readers and you will hit a major communications channel!! Instant Audience!! You will find yourself in the greatest blogging groove of your entire life and you will generate so much buzz that major bloggers will be asking you to guest blog for them and you will be asked to join the blog networks such as 9Rules or b5media!!