Recently, I have been doing my home work and reading how to build traffic to a blog site like this one. I found literally hundreds of sages on the internet providing wise advice. I dutifully followed much of that advice of course over the last month or so.

Actually though much of that advice is frankly mundane and obvious. Post quality articles says one. Well, would I post anything but what I consider to be quality articles? Hmmm, great advice thanks. Link swap they say. Submit your site to search engines. Yes, all good and totally obvious stuff.

So, I have come to a conclusion. Remarkable for me really this early in the day. I'll write a quality article about building blog traffic. Yes - that will bring 'em flooding in. It worked with me. I mean, I must have visited a hundred sites reading all of this garbage about how to build web traffic. I'm wondering if they all copy each other these web wizards?

At the end of the day, I think building web traffic is about luck. Yes - pure luck. If I could just break a story or write something so funny that it rose to number one on the Digg list I would have cracked it. And that folks is simple good luck.

Yes, you can do all of the things other web masters suggest - even positive thinking - which seemed to be one bloggers idea of how to build traffic - but at the end of the day - its down to good practice and lady luck. So, here are my five tips for building web traffic for your blog.... Good Luck!

1. Write your posts naked and post a picture of yourself doing it;

2. Whatever you write about make sure the title includes words like 'sex', 'penis' and other highly sought after and searched for terms on Google;

3. Be observant - keep a camera with you and pray that you can catch Brittany Spears pantyless getting out of a car;

4. Hang out with Australian politicians - they like to go to topless bars, get drunk and tied up. If you have that camera from point 3 above, you could wind up with a real story;

5. Finally, think positive, see your traffic stats building in your imagination - Steve Pavlina uses that strategy and he says it works.