If you have claimed your blog with Technorati, and registered it with other places which your blog can ping when a new post is made, you can increase your traffic just by making sure you post regularly.

Posting once a week, we could see direct spikes on the day we posted, and the following day.

Posting twice a week, the spikes got closer together.

Posting every other day, the traffic stays fairly steady. Daily brings a little more. Every other day seems to be the point where you can start a trend of increasing traffic over time, instead of just the bursts with the posts.

Each post that is listed somewhere else gives you a bit of traffic. And by listing your blog with other sites that auto-post a link back to your articles, you get more traffic.

This is one of the easiest ways to passively promote your blog. From then on, you write, and you get promoted.

If you want to benefit from this and actually build traffic, post at least every other day. Less than that will get you small traffic bursts, but won’t really gain traffic well over time.