Angela Booth of BloggingTips had an interesting suggestion as part of her article "Five Blogging New Year’s Resolutions to Make 2008 Great." As her 4th suggested resolution she recommends making your blog the center of your social network:

Have you discovered social networking? It’s time to find out what Web 2.0 is all about, and how you can build your traffic by joining social networks and becoming active on them.

I know a lot of sites generate some fast early traffic using MySpace. A friend of mine actually used a MySpace account to advertise a Wiki he was putting together and managed to get some pretty incredible traffic in the first few days.

Beside's advertising your blog through social networks though you can also turn the idea around and advertise some of your social networking profiles the same way using your blogroll. Consider putting links to your Flickr albums, Facebook or MySpace pages to help personalize the experience of visiting your blog.

Here are some other quick tips for your Blogroll:

  1. Using an affiliate link (like those from Amazon Associates) you can link to recommended products and yield a little extra income.
  2. Link to some other new blogs in your niche - newer blogs are a bit more likely to notice the traffic and maybe share the link-love.
  3. Create a network with your other blogs. Linking to your other blogs is a good way to increase traffic across them all and maybe convert some of your existing readers.