I've been trying to put myself out there into the "blogosphere," but I'm not so sure that the techniques that people claim to work actually do work. There is a social networking site called BlogRush and you'll notice I have the widget on my right sidebar. I even put it in place of my previous desktop because I haven't changed my desktop (on my site) in quite some time. I thought it looked good there - like it had it's own little spot on my blog. I was told the better placement it has on your site, the better it will work. That doesn't seem to be the case, as far as I can see. You can't make someone click on your post off that widget. They're either going to or they're not. I don't think anything really works. I'm just going to blog the way I've always blogged and stop worrying about "putting out" to get more traffic. I've never been much of a site traffic whore before so I don't know what has come over me lately. It's got to stop now.