I have had this blog up and running now for about three months, and I would like to get a bit more out of it. So, I have decided to try a bit of an experiment. I have gone to a few sites that have tips on how to boost traffic and I’m going to try some of the ideas. So here we go:

1. The first tip is to use lists, so here we are.
2. Don’t be boring. Uh-oh, I’m in trouble already, and I’m only up to point two.
3. Don’t just be a reblogger, by constantly posting news that is available elsewhere. I did this when flash player 9 for linux was released, however, and I got my first google hit from it. Now (as of February 1) after a few more posts this site is the first listing for the search "Bort’s Load of Bollocks". Hooray!
4. Listing your blog on Technorati is apparently a good way of getting word out. I have therefore listed this one.
5. Another one of Seth Godin’s tips is "don’t interrupt your writing with a lot of links." Well, I’ve kinda stuffed up there, but that is probably due to learning from the master, Daniel Rutter, who has a link on roughly every third word. And he gets lots of readers.
6. An ugly, poorly designed site with lots of rude colours and dodgy stuff from 1996 like blinking text and sounds playing in the background will drive readers away. So, I think the rule here is, look at someone’s MySpace page and make sure that your blog doesn’t look like that. Anyway, this site design is basically what blogsome randomly assigned me when I signed up. I’ve only done a few tweaks around the edges. But it’s a simple, black text on white background, unlikely to offend, kind of page. With an image of god knows what below the title.
7. Getting the site on digg will apparently unleash an angry mob of idiots. I don’t know if I want to go down that route.
8. Again, borrowing (OK, stealing) from Seth’s article, another tip is to write about blogging.
9. Tagging the site at del.icio.us can also help, according to a number of sites. That is something else I have tried.
10. The final tip I found is to write interesting things about stuff that people want to read about.

Hopefully these tips will be of some help to get some visitors here. I would really like to bring the count up from oh, zero. Anyway, I learned a lot of stuff putting this together. If you are now reading this after finding it on google or somewhere, hopefully some of the above links will come in handy for you, and good luc to you. And me.