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So after a few years away from using that forum to blog anything I've finally got round to restarting a blog to document the progress of my Dark Eldar.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/533452.page
Wow, that place has changed, many blogs no longer seem to be about single projects but are more like plogs encompassing a wide variety of things being worked upon.

Now to my point, the speed that that forum travels at these days is phenomenal, Most blogs will only be on the first page for 24 hours making it pretty hard to get any exposure, questions answered or to get any traffic to each blog without making daily updates. I know that there are ways to help increase traffic to a given blog by linking in sigs, having a snappy title with updates, posting the odd question in P+M or showing in the Showcase with a link to the blog etc. However the chances of actually having someone read your blog and contribute and subscribe seems pretty low without spamming links all over the site and bumping every 6 hours.
Would it make sense to split the P+M Blogs Forum into a few categories: 40K, Fantasy, Plog, Army Projects, Other etc just to slow it down a bit in order to make them a little more useful or should they be seen as a personal way of documenting work with some comments as an added bonus with all requests for suggestions/critique placed as a separate thread in P+M?

Personally, I like the speed at which it moves. It keeps fresh stuff coming all the time, and at the end of the day, so long as you update your title and link, the people interested in seeing your work will see it.

The thing is, there's so much variety in the type and content of blogs here that splitting the forums up would cause more problems than it would solve. That's my thinking, at any rate.

I think those that want to follow P&M blogs usually subscribe to the thread? Then they can follow it regularly?

As for getting others to view it, it is a case of just updating regularly and staying active on it.

I agree with Para interms of new and interesting blogs getting more exposure as opposed to maybe the few "big hitters" getting all the limelight.

Adding images to the dakka gallery, getting exalts from users, and consistent frequent updates is the magic formula for a large audience for your project log. Things do move quickly but if you can get on the 'top projects' list through exalts then you'll get a wider readership.