At the beginning of this month I started a bit of an experiement (and at the same time set myself a challenge). The goal of the experiment was to find out of content really is king.
If you read the posts on the blogosphere most people will tell you content is really important, right before the repeat that thing that the last blogger posted up about. Basically its really hard to get objective advice about how you grow the amount of traffic that comes to your blog.
The method that I used was simple. I would focus on posting the most interesting and mostly unique content that I could and each day I would check to see how the traffic was increased (if at all) and whether people liked the content. To make it interesting I set myself a challenge to see if I could quite literally double the amount of traffic I was getting.
As you can see from the graph above I accomplished my goal, I pulled these stats tonight (11:23PM) and as you can see the number of unique visitors in January is less than half the number of unique visitors in February. The number of hits that I got to my blog was 223055, although Grant redminds me that hits are How Idiots Track Statistics.
What will be interesting to see is whether the grow continues into next method if I keep up the effort and at what point does it plateau.