I believe nobody can disagree with the fact that to have consistent traffic, your blog needs to have solid content. As the old saying goes, content is indeed King. However, even after having fairly decent content, some blogs never take off. Reaching out to potential readers has become increasingly difficult considering just the sheer volume of quality blogs which already exist on almost every conceivable topic.
In light of this, there is one subtle way of promoting your site that many people surprisingly do not know too much about. This is especially applicable if you are just starting out with a relatively new blog and you just need to kick off: Link to quality articles from other blogs and click on those links a few times to visit the pages.
Wondering how this helps?
Now, I do not know about you, but I do obsessively follow my blog’s log to see where and how people are visiting my blog. When I see a referral, naturally my curiosity is aroused as to who has linked to my blog and I will generally check out the referral link. I have even ended up bookmarking many such blogs before, when I happened to like the blog.
But of course, you have to be prudent as to which blog articles you link to. Do link to relevant and useful articles. This is a very handy way to actually make people take notice of you. You catch them where they actually read!