One of the Build A Better Blog duo and Blogsquad founder, Patsi Krakoff has written about how she doubled the traffic to her ezine blog in one week and speculates some reasons why it occurred.

She concluded that her traffic increased because she did the following things:

• Wrote to her blog everyday - This one makes so much sense but it’s something most bloggers don’t do. I tend to go through spurts of motivation where I write regularly and well, it’s pretty obvious, the more good stuff you put out there, the more good stuff you get back in terms of blog traffic. Patsi’s blogging experience is testament to this concept.
• She wrote a provocative title - Have I mentioned how important titles are in blog posts? If I haven’t yet here in this blog I really should have, it’s littered throughout every blog traffic teaching resource I have ever written, spoken about and read or listened to from other successful bloggers. Your blog article titles are THE most important element.
• She finishes with a recommendation to keep at it for the long term - Again some reasonably obvious advice you might hear over and over again - but do you implement it over and over again? Patsi’s been blogging for over two years now at her ezine coaching blog and she says it takes time to earn rewards.

I care enough about the topic to write to an audience of 1. Many bloggers give up too soon.

- Patsi Krakoff

Can you say the same about your blog topic?

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It’s still hot - blogging that is - at the rate of 100,000 new blogs per day the Blogosphere is still booming according to popular blog tracking and search engine tool Technorati.

Here’s some summary data from David Sifry post, State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006

• Technorati is now tracking more than 57 Million blogs.
• Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.
• About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day, again down slightly quarter-over-quarter but probably due in part to spam fighting efforts.
• The globalization of the blogosphere continues. Our data appears to show both English and Spanish languages are a more universal blog language than the other two most dominant language, Japanese and Chinese, which seem to be more regionally localized.

Personally I’m happy to hear that blogging is booming but of course as I have written about previously, with increased competition it is difficult to attract attention and stand out from the crowd.

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If you are currently a student who blogs you can enter for a $5000 scholarship thanks to Scholarships Around The USA.

We’re giving away $5,000 this year to a college student who blogs. Our scholarship is awarded annually.

You have to write a 300 word maximum application essay about blogging to be considered.

Yet another good reason to be a blogger

Update: Voting ends tonight to decide the scholarship recipient.

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