How I've Gotten Bloggers Expoential More Traffic

[taewoo]

Hi everyone.

I used to run a small blog directory catered towards fitness bloggers. (I'm a gym junkie and i read tons of blogs on health + fitness.) For some reason, it took off and those that were on my directory saw anywhere between 30-2000% increase in blog traffic.

The spin on it was that I actually ran analytics for them: page rank, # of inbound links, # of mentions on twitter/facebook/social media, pageviews, where and when the users were coming from, etc etc. It got kinda rough as far as keeping server up, not to mention I had a full time gig doing other stuff, so I stopped. I wanted to get start again... but this time I wanted to ask the actual bloggers before making this directory.

1) is this something you bloggers would be interested in?
2) what problems (technical and/or marketing) do you have that would like to see solved?

[Saursht]

I am going to be focusing this post particularly on blogs rather than plain websites. Can a regular website gain traffic with this same method? Of course, but blogs are natural attractions for search engines and visitor growth, and so I’m focusing on blogs because there is so much more you can do with them to help the process along.

[LaughOutBlog]

Thanks for the post.