You’re right about the domain name having little to with the site’s traffic. Both literary agent Nathan Bransford (http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com) and writer J. A. Konrath (http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/) use Google’s blogger for their blogs and each has a ton of traffic. Both dispense some terrific information and insight…as does your site.

You’ve already touched on some of the things to do. Here are some other ideas (or perhaps just phrased differently):
* Write your passion.
* Know your audience.
* Have a tag line that summarizes what your blog is about.
* Write what you know.
* Be yourself.
* Be different from the pack. (The writing blogs are legion, it’s hard to break out with one about writing).
* Mingle. Go out and comment on other sites.
* Link to other sites.
* Email another blogger with topics you’d like to see.
* Link within your blog to other posts.

I’m sure there are others.

Good luck,
Norm (Timberati)

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