For the past several months, I've been reading about blogging and even doing some of it on my other site. It's taken up quite a bit of my free time. The payoff has been very small. One bit of advice I read is to spend a few hours on each entry. You won't get any traffic by slopping something together. Not anymore. I'm sure that's true. However, the converse doesn't necessarily hold, either. It's possible to spend several hours on each entry, and still get next-to-zero traffic. This is obvious. Of course it can happen. Especially when you don't market what you've written. When you have no marketing campaign, you're left waiting on "organic search engine" traffic. That's very difficult to achieve without backlinks. Backlinks are everything. It's extremely difficult to get them, however. Of course it is... It's not, however, impossible to get them. They can be got through some hard work. Essentially, you have to build up a pro...