My recent travels across the web have revealed several interesting facts to me. In addition to the varied educational benefits I have been amassing, I have noticed that most of the traditional sites and blogs I visit are operated by individual entrepreneurs or small business persons. Some of these people may also be moonlighting employees of large corporations, who thankfully have chosen to offer their experience and considerable wealth of knowledge to visitors who come upon their site. What great resources are out there for all of us! 
One cannot help but notice the efforts by many bloggers to discover methods of increasing their traffic by exchanging links, favs, and so on. Most strategies are built on the premise of "do this for me and I will reciprocate." While there is nothing wrong with this approach, I prefer to exercise my faith in humanity, utilizing an honor system and make the following suggestions. Keeping those facts in mind, I suggest that we all be ever-mindful of our fellow web-preneurs and do our very best in contributing to their emboldened web presence, to their overall success, thus guaranteeing our own as well. What? How?
When you visit a blog or traditional web site, always make it a point to do the following:
1. If the site interests you, bookmark it. Come back often.
2. If you like the content, subscribe to their feed.
3. Click on their Technorati Fav button.
4. If you enjoy a post, take a few moments to comment on it.
5. Author a new post and feature their site or blog post. Use trackbacks.
6. If they have another site, visit it.
7. If he/she has written articles, read them.
8. If their site or article has a voting button, use it!
9. Place a link to their site on your own page.
10. If he/she has written a book, buy and read it. Consider reviewing it.
11. Look over their ads. Click on anything that appeals to you.
12. If you are part of a blog community, visit others and leave positive messages.
Many of us, in our haste, tend to extract the benefit from a site, then hurriedly move on to the next one. We often fail to edify our new benefactor by taking any of the above actions. All of these suggestions take little time or effort, and will make a huge, positive difference to others. That alone is worth the small price you will pay. There is, in fact, another huge bonus: Each of these suggestions will benefit you as well, perhaps even more than the one you are helping!
You will learn much in the process, and learning is the primer step to earning. Each of these ideas will generate significant traffic and links back to you. People will also visit your blog, read your articles, buy your books, leave supportive comments and help to spread the word about what you have to offer. It will perpetuate, continuously being paid forward. You see, edifying and giving to others is always the best way to increase your own success, feelings of self-worth and accomplishment.
Remember, you cannot do it alone and you cannot out-give your receipts. Life does not work that way. We all win when we help each other!
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Author
LearningForProfit.com
Outstanding advice Dan! What I like about your twelve suggestions is that you incorporate these into your daily routine, practicing what you preach if you will.
The other point you didn't explicitly make but probably goes without saying, is you need to have entertaining and relevant content. You do.
P.S. I like your blog's new look.
Posted by: Clayton Shold | May 01, 2007 at 02:19 PM
Excellent post and I heartily endorse this approach as I use it myself but you added to new items which I will incorporate
Posted by: Peter | May 01, 2007 at 06:08 PM
Good points raised. Hope your advice becomes a natural for everyone else as well.
Posted by: The Thinking Blog | May 02, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Thank you for these comments. We all need to establish and communicate a far greater level of cooperation regarding this subject.
Posted by: Daniel Sitter | May 14, 2007 at 09:15 PM
Thanks for sharing these great "tips" David.
You totally made your point about helping other people effort in creating useful content
and not just using their knowledge in your own behalf without giving something back.
Great blog. Already added to my "to add banner" list.
Posted by: Fernando Martínez de la Vega | June 09, 2007 at 11:42 PM
Great comments! I'm quite a newbie in blogging and these tips would surely help!
Posted by: Joey | January 14, 2008 at 05:23 AM
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Posted by: Beresdeh | July 23, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Thank u....
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