Yes that time has come again – to say goodbye to 2009 and welcome 2010!

I want to finish this year by leaving a small list of the most popular posts here on Online Blogger. It’s combined according to comment count and above all – traffic. So here goes!

How to grow a successful relationship with your readers?

Guidelines for writing that builds better relationships.

Read about these useful tips: Blogging Is A Dialect: Do You Speak It?

What the heck is a pingback? When I started blogging I was pretty confused by it – pingbacks, trackbacks???

I wrote an article about trackbacks What is a trackback? so I thought it would be fair for making one about pingbacks to clear it up a bit more.

Trackback is a blogging term meaning a way of notifying a website about publishing an article referencing it.

By trackbacking an article a short excerpt of your entry will be placed on the referenced website with a link to your article. So you see it’s a good way to increase your website traffic.

There are reasons for not wanting to start a blog to increase traffic to your website but none of them are good. People say they don’t have the time to write the fresh copy on a constant basis that will get them the rankings they need. Well, that’s what ghost writers are for.

Some say they only have limited ideas to write about. Again, that’s the job of the ghost writer. To supply both the words and ideas. See the path to better search engine rankings is clear. Remember that a blog that gets fresh content on a regular basis gets the once over from the Google spider bots often. In the end there are several excuses but no real reasons why the business owner doesn’t use a blog to their advantage.

Read the full article Why You Need To Add A Blog To Your Website by Rob Starr on BloggingTips.

If you write a blog, the bad news is you have millions of competitors.

The good news is most of them suck.

The same problems come up again and again, keeping bloggers from building a real audience for what they have to say. So how about you? Do you commit one of these seven deadly sins with your content?

Sonia Simone wrote the article The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging on Copyblogger discussing these sins.