You know those weird, nagging questionnaires that bloggers answer, post and pass around? The thing has a name.
“Meme”.
A brief consultation with my best friend, Wikipedia, reveals that a meme (pronounced “mim”), “consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.”
Though it doesn’t exactly define meme as an “annoying viral questionnaire or quiz”, there are some points in this definition that suit the blog meme. First of all, the blog meme is …

Just a few months back, I had no idea what Entrecard was, let alone heard of it. I had just started pro-blogging and was as green as could be. In fact, I didn’t even want to sign up with Entrecard, simply because I thought it was some sort of nonsense site that spent its time gathering email addresses it could then sell to the online black market.
Obviously, I was wrong.
Now I’m a happy member, gleefully racking up credits through occasional dropping. I’m still not one of those …

Oh well, you can’t keep a girl from trying.
It’s a little bit like gambling, this addiction to contests, only I don’t have to spend any of my hard-earned money. As I mentioned a while back, contests are the way to go if you want to generate a lot of feedback. As The Net Fool’s recent contest proved, you can really earn a lot of traffic, popularity and readers through prizes.
Lots and lots of prizes.
Now that everyone’s cooking up contests just to beat the competition, what’s a blogger to …

Keep writing.
At first, I was starting to lose faith in this website. Few people were visiting, it hardly has any comments and I’m not exactly shocking readers through the roof. It’s been less than two months, yet my lack of patience is rearing its head and starting to feed my paranoia.
What if my site is doomed to fail, and I never make it as a pro-blogger? What if I’m just not cut out for this SEO thing?
Yesterday, though, I got a pretty good shot in the arm …

I’m not an SEO expert — far from it. I got into this late in the game, and as you may notice, I still have PR 0 right now.
So why am I posting a list of tips to increase traffic to your blog or website? More importantly, why should you listen to me?
It seems weird, but I actually have a decent reason for this. As a fellow newbie, I’m pretty much on the prowl for ways to increase my own site’s traffic. As such, I’ve pretty …