I’m not going to write a long explanation about this since I think you’re going to look straight to the list anway. This list, a compilation of many different techniques and levels, is meant to be a guideline for marketing for any site, especially blogs. Some of these are things you can easily do. In fact, it’s even possible to execute all of it. So without wasting anymore of your time, here are 30 tips for exploding your blog/website’s traffic.

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You might be wondering what You Appeal is. Its a concept familiar to a lot of sales people and it can be used by bloggers for a similar affect.

In sales, You Appeal means to get the prospect talking about themselves. I’m sure you want to know what that has to do with blogging, I mean, how can readers talk about themselves, apart from the comments section. Well the other way You Appeal works, is when the sales person, or in our example the blogger, talks about the prospect, and talks to them in a very focused way.

So instead of saying something like “I will tell you what You Appeal has to do with Blogging”, I used the phrase “I’m sure YOU want to know what it has to do with blogging..” By placing the emphasis of the sentence on the reader and not you, your writing becomes immediately more appealing.

How could you use You Appeal to reach your readers?

If you are just starting out as a blogger and don’t have a specific genre in mind or if you are looking to focus your blog on an area but want to make sure its something that people are interested in, the data released by comScore this week maybe of use to you.

• Business/Finance - Taxes
• Travel - Ground/Cruise
• Career Services & Development
  - Job Search
• Career Services & Development
  - Career Resources
• Retail - Computer Software
• News/Information - Politics
• Travel - Hotels/Resorts
• Government
• Travel - Online Travel Agents
• Business/Finance - Online Trading

These are the categories that are making the most gains in internet traffic year on year from 2008. No surprise really that Taxes tops the list at this time of the year.  Job searching is no real surprise given the state of the economy and the number of people who have suffered a layoff this past year.

What is interesting is that travel comes in above it, in particular ground travel and cruises, both of which are more associated with vacations than business travel.  So perhaps people are either planning to use their severance package to get away for a while or not everyone is having a bad time in this economy.

The real bonus for bloggers with data like this being made available is that you can make sure that you are hitting these areas, even if it is only with some of your posts.  Earlier this week I posted about adding a job board or widget to your site given the placement of Job related traffic in this list it looks as though that is going to become an increasingly popular way to add traffic and revenue to your site.