Yes I too agree that we should look into our own business but, sometimes we need to look into our competitors work also so that, we will get an idea about their articles writing style and about the promotional activities they are doing to attract more visitors, so by practicing some of them we can also increase our traffic.

I personally enjoy reading Problogger and Shoemoney’s blogs. And this one of course. In fact I only started blogging after I’d read Problogger.

But, some high traffic blogs I’ve read are just not that interesting. When I look at some of the posts and the heap of comments on some of them, I have to wonder if some of the commenters are actually reading the posts, or if they’re just making comments to get traffic to their own sites.

I have actually found some great none A list blogs from the comments in some of the A list blogs, so I guess the strategy must pay off for some.

In the last 31 Day Project one person who submitted some posts to the reader submissions told me that he had 50 times the traffic over the month than he did the month before as a result of the traffic that came from it. While he only had a readership of a bit under 100 readers a day last month he managed to leverage the project to get his average up to over 5000 visitors a day. 3 of his submissions over the month made it onto Digg, Reddit and/or Delicious.

I’m not saying this to boast or to take all the credit because he obviously wrote some good articles, but he only promoted them in the project. Participating in these projects can definitely give a blogger a platform to step their blogs up a notch if they are clever.

Oh if you’re referring to those projects, I already knew about them, I thought he was referring to something else.