Someone was recently expressing concern about how much exposure their bog site gets on JU, and it got me thinking about how people read other blogs.
I can think of a few ways for your site to get exposure
1. Your article shows up in the "Recent JoeUser Articles", and people access it from there.
2. Your article gets a comment that pushes it to the top of the "Recent Forum Posts".
3. Brad makes your article a "Featured JoeUser Article", and this can get you a lot of exposure.
4. You build a loyal following of readers who visit your blog site on a regular basis.
5. Other bloggers link to your blog site on theirs, so that their visitors may jump over to your site.
6. People like a comment you make on someone else's article and decide to check you out.
7. People access the "more..." for "Recent JoeUser Articles" or "Recent Forum Posts" and see a more comprehensive list of what's been posted recently.
Typically, when I log on I check out the "Recent Forum Posts" first, since they tend to change the quickest. Then I check out the "Recent JoeUser Articles". Then the featured articles. Then some of my favorite blogs. At each stage I do a refresh to see what has popped up in the forums. And then if I have run out of things to read, and can't think of anything to write, I will check the more comprehensive lists for articles and forum posts.
How about you?