[begin soapbox] Why is it that (new) bloggers these days will only link to somebody if they can do a link exchange with that person? I remember back in the good old days of blogging (2 years ago) when people would simply link to bogs that they liked and/or read. It trips me [...]

I recently joined two great services that are very useful to bloggers — FeedBurner and BlogSnob. I’m a little late to the party on both, but better late than never.
FeedBurner solves the problem of figuring out how many people are reading your site via RSS. It allows you to seamlessly route [...]

Prometheus 6 just wrote an article about increasing blog traffic. He gives some good general tips and also tells how certain events gained him incremental increases in readership. Because I’ve been asked about the topic a few times, I’ll post what I’ve been telling people through email.
As P6 pointed out, linking is [...]