How to get Referral Traffic

1. Writing a Series of posts like this one, keep your readers captivated by continuing on with a series.
2. Try to be original, if you find out about a new product or service try to blog about it first.
3. Write Product Reviews, I quite like this one. Write honest reviews of other peoples products then ask for a link 
4. Write Lists, like the top ten or top twenty or even top 100 best ways to do something. These attract links like crazy when done right. They also usually do well on social networking sites like Digg or Stumbleupon.
5. Comment on other peoples blogs, try & strike a relationship with other bloggers in your niche or topic. Once you build up a relationship you can exchange links or even ask for them to post about one of your recent entries & vice versa.
6. Write Articles & publish them on article directories. Include links to your blog in the resource box. Make sure & use relevant anchor text like Earn Money Blogging etc
7. Add links to your site on Wikipedia in the relevant section. So for example if your site if about pottery, add a link to your site in the relevant section. Sometimes the links get deleted if they don’t deem your site relevant enough, but sometimes the links stay & give good traffic 
8. If you sell a product creating an affiliate program can drastically increase your exposure & also increase your incoming link count. Provided you use an SEO Friendly Affiliate Program.
9. Include options on your site that allows visitors to email articles to friends, vote for articles & generally participate more. This will increase the chance they will recommend your site or mention it to someone else.
10. Claim your blog on Technorati & include an “Add to Favourites” button on your sidebar. The more popular your blog becomes, the more people will add it to their favourites.

21st Century Blogging!

The turn of the 21st century brought about a lot of changes, including changes in blogging. Because of the technology bloggers got a whole new way to write and present their blogs with lots of decorated items. They can now throw lots of interesting image instead of writing text as well as use short videos to intrigue the visitors. Even one can update one's blog when he is on journey with the help of a PDA or Netbook or something like that. 

There are mainly two types of blogs

1. Basic Blogs

2. Expository Blogs

Basic Blogs are mainly used for making content interesting, collecting interesting images from internet and to make their various comments.

On the other hand Expository Blogs mainly emphasize on the content of the blog like the writings of the blog. 

Again there are several other types of blogs that fall under these two main broad categories. 
Some of these include: 
• Group Blog – A variant of the same basic blogs but with multiple authors 
• Topic – Blog writing based on a specific set of topics (such as politics, news, religion, education, etc.) 
• Journals – Diaries; usually expository and of interest to the writer, family and friends 
• Photo – As the name suggests, this is a graphic heavy blog with photos, etc. 
• Linkblog – Similar to the regular basic blog but with only links and without commentary 
• Public relations – Blogs geared towards public relations, advertising, etc  

• Other – There are many other types and categories of blogs that can fall in this line as well. 

There are so many different things that blogs are used for these days.