Though there are many ways to get traffic, the traffic comes most from search engine.
Search engine should be exploited to the greatest extent possible. The techniques like LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) has changed the way search engines used to present the users with appropriate search results. LSI means search engines have become more intelligent and now think like human beings. So even you need to stop thinking like saerch engines and think like humans. Its not a joke :P, im serious!

Before the search engines were just keyword oriented but now in addition to that they are also meaning oriented! You must have observed many time you do not get appropriate results when you search for something. Now the LSI takes care of that in sense its algorithm is designed in such a way that it goes closest possible to the human mind. It figures out what a human would actually wants to search when he typed those keywords i.e. all the related content to that keyword should also be taken care of.

So while writing posts and selecting titles for them you should take neccessary care like :
1)Thinking in visitors point of view what you would type in search box to reach this page and accordingly select that keyword as a title for the post.
2)Dont stick to only to your niche but also write on topics related to your niche

Try it and you would see your site climb up the results.

When talking about blog, the art of binding the visitors plays a crucial role. Lets talk in terms of statistics. Consider, a blog gets 100 unique visitors per day from search engines. He may be getting these many visitors, but they will just be entering, reading what they wanted. If they like your blog they will bookmark it or subscribe to its RSS. If they do not find anything interesting they will leave your site. Suppose this continues for 5 days. The total visitors will be 100x5 = 500. But what if you could increase this? . If the visitors that left could be called back the amount of visits to your blog can be increased to large amount. Let me explain. If we consider the above stats and assume the visitors that left come back every day (considering you update your blog every day) the new stats would be 100+(100+100)+(100+100+100)+(100+100+100+100)+(100+100+100+100+100) = 1500 which is 3 times original traffic! . Although this calculation cannot be fully perfect, we can see that it can make a huge difference if you tempt your visitors to visit your blog again.

The number of visitors that interact with your blog daily is much less compared to those who leave your site just after one visit. To stop these visitor leakages you should take good care about following things.
-Update your blog/posts after minimum possible intervals.
-Descent appearance of blog.
-Promote your RSS feed using large attractive logos.
-Keep an email feed subscription form on your blog.
-Contests are good way of binding your visitors but it should be such that users hesitate to enter it at first look. Activities like forcing users to subscribe to your blog or forcing them to write about your blog on their blog to enter the contest will reduce amount of participants. Keep it simple.
-Give away freebies to users.
-Regular replies to comments on your blog.
-Avoid duplicate content. Users wont prefer reading anything again what they have read on any other site.

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Follow these steps and see the results !

You must have come across ads that promise you to give you visitors for cash. I have never tried that because i believe its not worth buying. These ads are the other ends of the ppc or gptr sites. This means the visitors are members of these sites who are payed to click on links. You just buy the packages of how many visitors you need and asap you get those. But such visitors are of no use in an interactive site, or even a normal site/blog. The reason im saying this is that the visitors they send you are money oriented, who have joined those ppc or gptr sites to earn money for themselves and have no interest in your site. They will just come visit the home page, the next moment surfing another homepage ;). If you are buying visitors for a forum or a social networking site, its of no use !

If you are concerned about your rank only than it may benifit you in terms of pagerank,alexa rank or so on. But if your site is running on ad revenue, such visitors wont even bother to look at you ads ! So if you are interested in just visitors i would recommend entrecard is the best way for driving traffic (that too for free!) instead of wasting money on buying visitors. Genuine traffic (coming from sources like search engines,blog communities, etc) are better, as they will be one who will bother to read your post and comment on your blog (also to click on ads :P).

Planning to advertise/publicise your site? Wish you could do it without letting a penny drop out of your pocket? There are some sites that have recently come up which allow you to do so, only difference that you use the credits instead of money to advertise your site. Credits can be earned by various ways depending on these sites. You earn credits based on number of times their widgets are loaded on your site or number of clicks, etc. Here are some sites and their descriptions :

Blogrush

First you need to create an account and submit your site for review. They have some guidelines while reviewing the blogs like some minimum no. of posts, good quality post, a quality blog, etc. so its better to read their terms and conditions before submitting your blog else you may not get a chance again after submitting 2 times. After submitting your blog you will be given a piece of code to be pasted on your site. Once you have your site accepted you will see their widget running where you had prviously pasted that code. The credits increase each time that widget is loaded or some visitors click on ads in it. These credits that you earn will be inturn used to advertise your posts on other blogs that have such widgets running !

Entrecard

Entrecard is similar service to Blog-rush that provides a small widget to be placed on to your blog. The only difference here is the way in which credits are accumulated. Credits can be accumulated by something called as "drop" in which you click on the drop logo below the widget on others site or others comming to your site drop on yours. You earn credits both way i.e. either you drop on others or others drop on yours. Other way you earn credits is by allowing ads to appearing on your widget. Its end to end advertising i.e. other people will send you request for advertising their site on your widget in return you get the credits equal to the "price to advertise on your site". You cant set your own price. Your price depends on the no of people that have droped on you. You can get full info on their site. Now you can use these credits to advertise your blog (same way as others do by sending requests to you). You can select the appropriate site based on its price to advertise. You can create your own 125x125 ad banner!. Once request approved u will see your ad displaying on their widget.

Adsflip
This is a new service which works in a similar way. When you signup you get 1000 free credits to advertise. Their widget look similar to google ad which you need to place on your site. You can create your own banner and use your credits to advertise your site. Your ad will then appear on these widgets on other sites and your credits will be consumed accordingly.

Your website traffic is directly related to your rank in search engines. Now how can you improve your rank ? There are few criterions to keep in mind. These may be simple but very imortant! for eg. google does not just scan your site and rank you it also consideres how many sites contain backlinks to your site, does your site contains speling mistakes etc. so here are some points to keep in mind to increase your website visitors :

→Keep your overall site presentative and eye catching so that so that a user who visits should be willing to visit it again.

→Avoid spelling and grammatical mistakes.

→Backlinks from other sites (other sites containing your site address). Backlinks count for your pagerank. You may have some visitors coming through these backlinks. Sometimes while searching for your site, your site may be listed in top results because your site may have been added to a site with a greater PR.
When i created my blog it didtnt appear directly in google for weeks. But when i added my site to mybloglog.com it was there in google before my eyes! Again i checked for seo at seobugz.com it was there again!

→Alexa rank : Your alexa rank is based on the number of visitors visiting your website. Alexa rank comes into picture when you are selling you site or an adspace on your site. Alexa.com monitors your visitors with the help of their alexa toolbar. You can get it for mozilla and Internet Explorer. To get it installed visit Alexa toolbar. When a user having alexa installed visits your site you get a hit. The more of your users visit your site using alexa the more is your rank. So suggest your visitors to install it.

→Add your sites to these blog communities :
Mybloglog
Blogcatalog
Bumpzee
FuelMyBlog

There are some services which notifies the major search engines about your website. These send what are called pings to the search engines. The free service provided by them pings 20-50 search engines. If you want more u need to pay for that. some of the popular sites are listed below :

Pingoat

Pingomatic

Kping

Ipings

Dont forget to add your site to :

MyBlogLog