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[moi]

A blog must have good content simply because the power of google is enormous.
If you have good quality articles and if you manage to bring original points of view about your subjects, you'll end up at the top of Search engine pages easily for those topics and that will bring a steady stream of visitors.

Google is very good for discriminating between good content and shovelweb (which is pushed down in the listings)

Then the good content is sorted by popularity (most popular, biggest audience first). That's why it's not useful making articles about, say, Halo or sthg.
Be original.

[Mipe]

Writing about Justin Bieber gets you more traffic than a thesis on game development with procedural content generation.

But which audience do you want?

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

i hate proc gen so it's actually a tough choice for me

[DjangoDurango]

• Linking. Whenever you name-drop another company/name/practically anything and anyone with a website, link it. It increases relevancy when people use search terms for that website.

In addition, if what you are linking happens to be a blog and it also happens to accept trackbacks, linking to particular posts of theirs will, in turn, post a comment on their post with a link back to yours.

Obviously, you shouldn't be a dick and link every post of every blog ever, but if, say, you are posting about your own development process and can relevantly reference something some other blog has written about, you'll not only have a post that is (ideally) of some interest to your readers, but also promotes itself elsewhere to another group of people who might be interested in it.