Anyone can blog. The question remains: who is reading your blog. If you blog simply so your family that lives 1000 miles away can read about your life, you might not worry about attracting traffic to your blog. Most people, me included, are blogging so that the blog will attract new readers.

In order to get traffic to your blog, you need to use a combination of techniques. You can make sure your blog is indexed by the search engines, participate in social networking sites, and sign up on sites like Buzzfuse.com that actually exist to help people get the word out about their articles, pictures and websites. That last method is probably the most dynamic easy to drive traffic – and it is actually a way to garner additional income. Pretty cool if you ask me.