If you are not getting the traffic you hoped for, you are missing a very important step in the blogging process. How can you get more traffic to your site? Do you want to move from being a low traffic website to one that gets high traffic on a regular basis? It's time to become a social media expert. Follow these steps and you are definitely going to see the traffic to your site grow the way you want it to.

1. Use more than one social network. Just using Digg is not enough. StumbleUpon is another you could use. Sign up with MyBlogLog. Sign up for forums related to your site and start a discussion about your site. Recommend other people's sites. Voting for yourself is not enough and will never get you onto page one of Digg.
2. Use images, illustrations, videos. Most social users will vote for, Digg or StumbleUpon an article which contains interesting images or videos. Use them and watch your stats spike!
3. Offer to write an article or review for someone else's site. Develop relationships with other bloggers. The world of blogging is a community. Participate in that community to reap the rewards of blogging successfully.
4. Comment regularly on other high traffic sites. This is guaranteed to get you more traffic from the site owner and from their readers.

So, take action today and change some of the methods you use for building traffic stats. Get smart about social media and watch your traffic soar.