Now, I’m a 150 unique visitors a day person (my hits are higher, though), and I know that 30 folks watch my syndication feed via livejournal (I publish a full feed, including images, so I don’t pick those folks up on my stats.)

The main thing with publishing a long feed is the person needs to be aware someone can view the whole blog article. Tiffany at Princess knits had a problem with someone basically just reposting her posts in their entirety disguised it as their post at their blog. Clearly, that’s not what you want!

Posting at forums does seem to bring more traffic than email lists. It also lasts longer because the forums are organized to let people find information.

Now, I can tell you where I posted and caused traffic to zoom! (Don’t do this, it’s pointless. It wasn’t what I intended!) I like to read the Volokh Conspiracy. One of the bloggers was discussing footwear and traveling on airplanes. So, I commented that I solved the problem of taking my shoes off by wearing flip flops. To be funny, posted the URL to my crocheted fun fur flip flops. I got 80 visits from that site the next hour! I kept getting visits. To date, I’ve gotten 450 visits from that comment. I’m still getting visitors!

Likely very few or none, are knitters. So, it’s pointless to post there as a method of getting long term traffic. Still, it’s amazing. I wonder what would happen if I posted a link at Instapundit?

Crafster is the one knitting forum that does bring in traffic fairly consistently. Crafster lets me post pictures, and people do like to visit free pattern sites.

I posted in Salon’s TableTalk once a link to an ancient size chart, and got massive amounts of traffic. But none of it stuck.

I am getting more systematic about bookmarking though!

My apologies for not answering!

I agree that many bloggers just use it as a journal. I think even some who post “I updated my blog” do it for that reason and don’t care that much about hits. In fact, I’m *darn* sure the ones at Machine Knitters Yahoo list do it for that reason; the rest of the people on the list like seeing the new articles, and often discuss the aticles on the list instead of at the list subscriber’s blog. As long as the list owner, Roz in the case of “knittingmachines” doesn’t mind, I don’t really understand why the knitters on knit flame go batty. (That said, the knitters on knitflame rarely overlap with those on “knittingmachines”) .

Still, for some reason, people posting “I updated” seems to be lots of knitflamers pet peeve. It’s not really mine. I just think, if someone happens to be motivated to do it to increase traffic, they at least need to know there are other things they should also be doing.

Ping-o-matic rocks though!