As, err, "regular readers" know, I just started this blog a week and a half ago. Since then I'm up to around 400 visitors a day in here, which I'm pretty satisfied with given the limited amount of content thus far (though I think it's pretty good for a week and a half! Apart from a couple of dedicated, focused efforts, most of this has been off the cuff commentary, but it really adds up quickly. I could imagine the corpus of info that will exist here in a year).

Nonetheless, I would like more traffic, to the point that I'm saying "Scoble? Who's that?".

One of the ways to drive traffic to a site is through the use of Trackbacks. This mechanism, at its root, is a quid pro quo arrangement between blogs - e.g. I post a brief summary of something a "big" blogger said, and then ping their site with a trackback. They post the trackback link and users, and search engines (and PageRank if nofollows isn't put into force), go both ways. You pat my back, I'll pat yours. As mentioned in a prior posting, I currently don't have trackbacks or comments because of the slowness of the Radio Userland servers, not to mention that it would be a hassle to monitor it for spamming. I investigated implementing my own trackback server (it's a very simple spec), but the current industry belief seems to be that trackbacks are dead because of spam (which is a funny claim, because trackbacks are pretty much by design a type of targetted spam).

So for the meantime I am going to continue to monitor referral logs, as I always have, and if I notice someone coming from a link or post on your site, and I can validate that it's real, then I'll add a note on the posting. Basically it's a manual trackback system.