I just found this blog and have enjoyed reading it!

Just one question though wouldn’t your first tip on blog promotion be considered spamming?

“Send emails to bloggers in your niche introducing yourself and the blog”

Thanks!
Mat

You can’t go against Google guidelines if you want to rank well in their index.

@==> Andrea just do it … my traffic certainly went up after making the move and I know of others who had the same experience. My original blog is still on Blogspot with a an explanatory post that indicates where I moved to and I still get a few visitors every day referred by the old blog, so I don’t feel there was any real downside.

@==> Bitten, examine yur motives regarding your dilemma. To chose the language you want to write in based on perceived traffic seems short-sighted to me. Last year I recal a statistic that indicated Japanese and then french were the two most common blogging languages … certainly today Chinese must run up near the top as well. I speak none of those languages, so how much sense would it make to try to start a blog in one of them because I might get more traffic. Your blog should be concerned with what you have to say, not the language you say it in. I live in the Philippines and have some Filipino friends who insist on blogging in English who really, really shouldn’t … but how to break it to them gently that their skills are not up to the task they have set themselves to? All that being said, it occurs to me a blog on the difficulty of blogging in English when being more fluent in another language has possibilities. “Thing’s I have learned, mistakes I have made, good examples, horrid examples, etc.”