Have you ever read a novel call 'Line of Duty' by Michael Grant?

One of his characters delivers this line, see if you can relate:

" A guy I fish with once told me a funny story.  He'd just bought an anchor, and as he went foward to tie it to the anchor line, he slipped and fell overboard.

"Suddenly, he sitting on the bottom of the lake in 15 feet of water, cradling his brand new anchor. He didn't want to let go, but he was running out of breath.

"Realizing his choice was drowning or losing the anchor, he reluctantly let go and swam to the surface."

The character in the novel, a police detective, went on to say:

"The 'Job' has been my anchor and I've been holding it for 23 years. I don't want to let go either, but I've run out of breath."

Most people can be caught holding onto prized anchors. If you've been blogging for a while and no one is reading (100+ visits per day), it might be time to let go.

But for those who want to keep holding that anchor, here's the last three tips of the series,
I broken down from Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor, "10 Steps To Generating Blog Traffic":

3 Tips To Change Your Blog Traffic Problem

3. Submit your blog to www.blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it's so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it's worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn''t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it''s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers, however all of the techniques I've listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers, but they won't stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

Learn more by reading Blog Traffic Tips 8 - 10, then tips 4 -7.

Blog Responsibly,

Kendall Matthews

www.StressLessHomeLoan.com

P.s. Have you written a pesonal mission statement?

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