Not really sure what you are asking, running a blog is a great way to generate long-term targeted traffic and blog commenting on other people's blogs is a good way to generate traffic for your own site.
Having a blog seems to be a magnet for people to drop their links off, in the comment section. The amount of real comments from flesh and blood people seems to be a little thin though. Traffic on my blogs does seem to build over time. It doubles approximately every month.
Blogs can bring in a lot of traffic in the long run because Google favors site that daily content updated. Go search for a particular keyword and you notice that the top position in the search results are often occupied by blogs. Even highly competitive keywords are snatched by blogs in the number 1 position. Apart on traffic from search engines, blogs are also a good tool for buidling your credibility online over any niche you are covering. This is because you are sharing your knowledge on the topic on a continuous basis and people love to read to get more information on the topic they are interested in. Blogs are considered are trusted source by many others. People tend to look for blogs regarding product review since they know that the author would have used the product before. ( But there are more blogs that are trying to fake this ) There are many more stuff that a blog can do for you apart from just the traffic. Explore it for yourself and learn it by experiencing.
Blogs really are not much different in that sense. The old saying "if you build it, they will come" does not apply even to a blog. You still have to spend time promoting.
I think blogs are a great way to break the ice in internet marketing with low overhead. However, I don't like the fact that it is becoming a malicious trend to throw up idle content on blog sites. I mean, too much dupe content floating around; it's saturating the essence of the internet in it's entirety. It's kind of like your favorite mmorpg, but it just keeps filling up with bots. It's easy to spot bogus blogs and content nowadays, so it's always better to come up with original content. It'll make your traffic and page rank happy.
blogs are great you can offer all types of cross promotions for your business plus traffic and income generation to increase your ad revenue it just takes a little time at first to set it up then they are a great tool
A blog can bring you a lot of traffic if you write good and useful content on it and get a lot of back links from related sites like with any other website.
You are the one who can get visitors to your website, means that if the content is really informative and required by people they will visit it.
If you want to make money online, a blog is not the way to do it. Join some affiliate programs and promote those products on a site you create. Unless you can get 10,000 subscribers to your blog and sell direct advertising, you will not make much with a blog. Just my experience. I'm not putting down blogs...I have 2, but they don't make me my money.
blogging is one way of acquiring links...like SydneyWhite said, just ensure that you do it the right way...
Here are some good tips to success: 1. Put your site in Web Directories, those are just like phonebooks but with use to your website. Find ones that have good PR( Pagerank from 0-10) like PR 3+ and if your site is indexed your PR will increase. 2. Get lots of backlinks, this is a nice way to go. Basically if you post a lot on a forum and put a link on your signature you should get some backlinks depending on how many posts you get. 3. Try to buy links on high PR sites. 4. Submit to multiple search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Altavista. 5. Use the Google Webmaster My Site program, and add your site to it. Then create a sitemap and they will Index your site on Google Search engine. 6. Learn how to use Link exchanges. This will get you some traffic. 7. Send messages to friends or people you know, this will get lots of traffic. Most of your friends will love to join your site. 8. You need to do lots of advertising. To do this get a text link or make a small banner. Then pay people to put it up on there site, or even trade posts for advertising. 9. A good way to get a link without any money on someone's site is to maybe post 50 on there forum, then ask for a link on there footer. In a month or so, you will see this paid off, because youre site may have an extra quality direct link and will be indexed in search engines. 10. Find something interesting, and put it on your site. For my site www.fantasy-pc.com I have news updates on the homepage on interesting topics such as snake venom to top money makers. This draws attention. 11. Get loads of fresh content. Google loves this. What I mean by this is to just update your site, make changes and improve a lot! 12. Have a nice theme, people don't like regular plain themes, but colorful ones such as the subsilver theme for phpBB is dull but the subblack theme is better. 13. Keep to your site, and don't just throw it off. This will site that you don't care for it and neither will the users. 14. Find a way to keep your users entertained. On my site I have about 150+ arcade games to play along with chat rooms, tv stations, award shop, and a lottery! 15. Get something that makes some members feel special. Like for my website I have the Elite Members Club by paying $2-$25 or making 300+ posts you can be one. Elite members get special forums, names, title colors, access and much more! 16. Get something that will get users posting. I have FP Gold on my site that you can sell for services instead of money. These can be earned by posting more, and can be used for graphic designs, services, forum posting, script creation, website help, contests, link sales, signature sales, advertising, and way more! 17. Patience, this is the most revered thing in Web Devoloping, it requires a lot of patience and time. Cheers
Blogs are actually a great platform to do affiliate marketing. It is easier to get someone who trust you to spend their hard earn money on a product that your recommend rather than to getting sales from a complete stranger. Authority are build should you produce quality work on your blog and an E-Book could easily lure in a few hundred subscribers to your mailing list. This are precious emails that will benefit you in the long run. But I can't deny that blogs aren't good for fast cash definitely. You need to put in a lot of effort and time to build a blog compared to an affiliate sales site.
Yes provided you know how to promote the blog. And there no free traffic if you don't promote your blog