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[brokenportal]

I was reading where Luminosity wrote,

There are fifteen people reading my real blog right now, about 6,800 visitors so far.

That got me thinking, are there tips and tricks for driving up the traffic on a blog like the ones we have here at Longecity? What is the average amount of readers and viewers that a blog that doesn't work to build an audience would get? If there is a way to bring awareness to Longecity in this way then I would like to explore incentivizing bloggers like Luminosity (who I will invite to this topic).

Luminosity, I was considering your offer about publishing that article on light bulbs. It might not be related enough for a place like our front page or newsletter, but come to think of it, if you can post things like that in a blog and gain an audience then we might be able to figure out increments for giving you points for it.

[Luminosity]

My traffic went up when I enabled those blog indexing thingies in my options. If my numbers are high enough, maybe you could sell google ads and split the money with me. Or give me all of it. I thought I would try to make this place more social and more of a hang out so I made a lot of references to liquor. People that like to read and write about wine and spirits are usually social and convivial. We'll see how that works out. If you don't object to it, you might be able to sell liquor ads if the numbers are high enough.

It would help if the duplicate blog situation I wrote about is taken care of because a certain number of people are stumbling upon the empty duplicate blogs. That must be annoying.

Paying an expert to deal with the bugs on this site would help everyone with everything. It would enable more people to sign up.

Someone here tried to set up a blog but she wasn't a member. It was very frustrating for her and the two of us that were trying to help her because we didn't know she had to be a member. Generally making the site more user friendly and bug free would just help with everything. It sounds like a good long-term investment that would require outside hired help.

I think I'm the only active blogger?

Many wise people have said, the lead the people walk behind them. The more you enable people here to do what they want to do, the more posts you will have, the more participants, and the more ads you can sell.