To make any sort of money in blogging, you have to have readers. Regular readers are great, wonderful even, but there is value in the one-off visitor.

Increasing your readership is not just about your (presumably great) content. I’d say about 40% of blogging is marketing. There are plenty of tips out there on marketing your blog. The usual suspects include submitting to Digg, guest posting on other blogs, including your blog address in forum/email signatures, and commenting on other blogs. There are also some lesser used methods.

These are all fine and dandy to know, but actually doing something is always the hardest part for most. So what have you done to increase your readership in the last 24 hours? Here’s my list:

• Added the home page and various other entries on the site to StumbleUpon
• Used StumbleXchange to get a bit of extra traffic from Stumblers.
• Personally invited those who recently added me as a friend or joined my “neighbourhood” at Blog Catalog to subscribe to this blog. A little bit of personal contact can go a long way.

So far these three small things have brought in a steady increase in traffic, which I expect to grow further. As a bonus, some of those visitors have become subscribers!

So what have you been doing to market your blog recently? Please tell us all in the comments.