Tips for Increasing Traffic to Your Blog and Building an Audience

Great, succinct post on increasing traffic to your blog at Suzanne Falter-Barns' Get Known Now Blog:

Basic rules of the road:
1. Find five blogs who reach a similar market and preach a similar mission to yours
2. Post a comment to them once a week
3. Subscribe to them thru RSS feeds and read what they're posting about
4. Comment, connect, be polite and helpful

Read the other three tips at her blog.

There's a couple of cool things about commenting on other blogs -- first, if they're in your niche or field of interest, you'll probably learn cool stuff by reading other blogs, just for your own benefit.  Second, when you comment on other blogs, chances are that blogger will notice you, thank you for the comment, and you might just start a dialogue.  I've met a lot of people this way, people I wouldn't have met otherwise.  Is this networking?  Yes.  But is it also just cool to meet new people?  Yes, that too.