This may sound simplistic, but it's true: Post stuff that a lot of people would be interested in. Then be consistent. It's one thing to attract passersby, it's another to keep them coming back - or spreading the word.

Shameless self-promotion.

Have a very simple but catchy name that relates to the main subject of your blog. Make sure the URL is easy as well. So many of both the blog and the URL are incomprehensible and not memorable.

101 ways to get more traffic 1.Write and submit articles . It is a classic, but it works. This will be indefinite traffic stuck in the search engines for you. Write quality unique articles, not articles that are rehashed or provide no insight to readers, which is a huge problem these days. 2.Write and submit press releases, think prweb after you do one. 3.Write and ping blog entries. Always make sure to link back to your website with your blog posts. Try making multiple blogs and have them all link back to one main site. 4.Make sure your website is listed in DMOZ: http://dmoz.org/. 5.Advertise your website in the appropriate categories at Craigslist. Try posting your ads in the most populated cities in the world. 6.If a niche related forum that you frequently visit allows signatures, then make sure to add your website url in there. 7.Make sure to view related products on Amazon.com. You can try and take some customers from your competitors here by providing your own url if the product is similar. 8.Review websites in your niche on Alexa to try to take some of their traffic by including a reference back to your site. 9.Review some related products on epinion. 10.If you purchase a product that you actually like, then feel free to give an individual respect when respect is due and leave a testimonial. You should be able to get some traffic from that website if your testimonial is left with a url. 11.Whenever you send an email to someone, always add your website url as a signature. 12.Keep updating content on your websites/blogs… try at least once per week. 13.Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites, especially at http://del.icio.us/. 14.Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords. 15.Tag blog photos at Flickr. 16.Politely ask your readers to subscribe to your rss feeds. 17.Try coining your own term. Might want to trademark it if you smell that it will become popular. 18.Encourage readers to comment on your blogs. 19.Include translation for your websites/blogs, especially in Chinese. 20.Do not be boring, write about something that a wide select of people would want to know about. 21.Make sure to edit your writing (unlike what im doing :D). 22.Comment on other related blogs. 23.Make a custom 404-error page for your website. You can provide a link back to your main website or even try to monetize it by offering a related affiliate program within your niche. 24.Sponsor a charity, most charities will link back to your website, and you are also doing a good deed . 25.Sell an item on eBay as a charity auction. Most charities will link back to both your auction and your main website. 26.Start a publicity campaign, do something that individuals in your niche will take note of. 27.Brand your website with a logo and a slogan/catch phrase. Think IBM. 28.Hold a crazy contest that people in your niche will talk about. This will equal more links and traffic to your website. 29.Build a tool that individuals in your niche will love and enjoy. Then give it away for free. If the tool is helpful, then you will get quality one-way links to your website. 30.Contact small newsletters sources offline and submit articles to them. 31.Become friends with editors of an offline publication. 32.Give speeches offline. Start small and local. Also, do not forget to participate in toastmasters meetings in your area. 33.Have a GREAT product. All of the marketing/advertising in the world will do you NO good if your product is sub par. 34.Make something innovative. If you are selling information, what makes your content something you cannot get from the local bookstore, Barnes and noble or even eBay for that matter? 35.Is your product groundbreaking? Will you leave individuals with no choice but to talk about your product or service? 36.Are you selling something that wide groups of people want to know about but there is limited/scarce knowledge? 37.Write good content, if your writing is good then people will share it with their friends. In addition, webmasters will use it as content on their website with a reference back to your article, or at least they should. 38.Spark emotions. If you get people emotional about something then they will most likely talk about it. 39.Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often. 40.Build a list of subscribers. Your list is like a golden asset to you if utilized correctly. 41.Write tip articles, such as “Ten easy tips to blank-blank-blank.” 42.Buy traffic from the search engines by utilizing one of their PPC campaigns. 43.Open up a myspace account and find targeted friends so that you can promote your services to them. Do not spam people, myspace is cracking down on spammers and are starting to sue people. 44.Solicit a link from your local chamber of commerce. 45.Have an easy to remember domain name. If your domain name is too long or not memorable then people may forget your site. 46.Add a bookmark option to your website/blogs. 47.Purchase the misspelled versions of your domain name and have it redirect to your main one. 48.Use keywords in your image alt tags. For example, <img src="image.gif" alt="keywords go head" /> 49.Make sure to include appropriate keywords in your title tag, search engines show more prominence or importance to keywords here. 50.Place appropriate keywords in your anchor text when linking. 51.If you have a profile anywhere online, always include appropriate keywords and link back to your website. 52.Try to get links from websites within your niche with a high pr (pagerank). Some The more one-way links (inbound links/backlinks) you have to your website, the higher your pr will become. Pagerank is important because websites with higher prs tend to have a higher search results in Google. It is a no brainier that if you can get number one for a competitive keyword then you will have enough traffic that you can handle… oh by the way its all free targeted traffic to remind you. 53.Outsource grunt work. Time is in essence money…. you can hire individuals at freelance services to send emails, request JV proposals, or to answer questions from prospective or current customers. 54.Offer something for FREE. Abracadabra is not the magic word, FREE is. It is like a worm on a pole for a fish in the water…. its bait! Offer a free mini course or free ebook to help collect more subscribers. You can always offer a backend to monetize on this opportunity, such as an affiliate product for example. 55.After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product. For example, if I offered a traffic ebook, then after the individual purchase it would make sense for me to offer a traffic conversion bonus for a limited time only. 56.Become the virus within your niche. Make yourself the bug and have people talking about your product. When people talk about your product then you can induce the viral effect. However, you must give people a reason to talk about you, and being like everyone else is not one. 57.Do your research and find expensive niches to tap into. A good way to do this is to find how expensive someone is paying for a keyword on a PPC search engine. If you can sell items that are more expensive more often then it is a quicker way to get rich :D. 58.Become an active respected member of niche related forums. You can do this by offering quality posts. Hint Hint, it is not the number of posts you make, it is the quality. Remember, quality or quantity. Many useless or negative posts will have people looking at you funny. 59.Test, test, test. Your flushing money down the toilet if your not testing to see what campaigns are bringing you in the most money compared to which ones are costing you money. When you test, you can eliminate the campaigns that are costing you dollars so that you can properly maximize your marketing efforts. Without proper testing, you are pretty much lost and can’t improve. You can only guess to what has or what is working. With proper testing, you do not guess, you know. 60.Stay up to date on what is going on in the world, you can monetize off hot topic trends. 61.Network, when you know more people you can find people that can help you get what you need. 62.Offer an affiliate program for your product or service. Make sure to let your satisfied customers know that you have one, if they like your product then they will be even more delighted to know that they will get money for referring you. 63.Write and give away a free ebook or report. It does not have to be long as long as its quality information neatly formatted and put together. You can also make a brandable ebook or report and allow affiliates the opportunity to brand their affiliate links in there to pass on to the next individual. You can then send this ebook to your subscribers or submit it to ebook directories. 64.Add viral components to your blog such as social bookmarking options, and a refer a friend option. 65.Be funny, people like something that will make them laugh and they will spread it for you if it is a genius idea. 66.Syndicate your content by using an RSS feeds on your website. 67.Answer people’s questions on Yahoo! answers with a link to your website in the sources area. 68.Put a link in the “about me” section of your eBay profile. 69.Make and upload a viral video to you tube. Use appropriate keywords in the video description for your target audience. 70.Record an informative podcast and submit them to poplar podcast directories. 71.Provide helpful answers for Google adsense on their help forum with a link back to your website. Go here to check it out: http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help 72.Get people to comment and add content to your site. When they do this, they will provide you unique content, no need to pay for ghostwritten articles. 73.If you cannot get JVs, then try to bribe webmasters for sponsored advertising space on their newsletters. 74.Include a media section on your website so that you will give the media an easy way to stay up to date on what your company is doing. 75.Try to teach a class at your local community college or university. The more exposure you get in the public, the more credibility you will receive. 76.Make a screensaver and make it easy for individuals in your niche to download it. Have eye candy graphics combined with your company logo to brand yourself. 77.Write something controversial and spread it freely to your target market. It can be something as idiotic as the Da Vinci code, but as long people talk about it, its a successful campaign. A few hints, something controversial is something that goes against established beliefs in your market. 78.Write and publish a book. Having your own book is a quick way to gain credibility. 79.Take a guru in your niche out to lunch, and pay for it. 80.Start an organization or club about something. This can be done online through Yahoo! or Google groups. 81.Volunteer. Donate your time to a good clause…you can always network with people and form connections at the same time. 82.Get involved in your community and try to run some type of outreach program. 83.Offer good customer service, you may be surprised on how many referrals you get just be having a reliable one. 84.Consider adding a direct mail marketing campaign to your marketing ****nal. 85.Put an ad in your local yellow pages to get some local customers. Yellow pages tend to be more successful then newspaper ads because individuals are looking for a particular service when they are browsing through the yellow pages as opposed to newspapers. 86.Post bulletins in your local supermarket. However, since not everyone may carry a pen or pencil, place your contact information and url on strips on the bottom so that individuals can rip it off and take it with them. 87.Host your own commercial so you can put “as seen on TV” on your products. 88.Conduct surveys and publish them. These make you appear as an expert in your field of study. 89.Break a record or shoot to be in the Guinness world records for something. 90.Make a sitemap for your website. 91.Use a favicon for your site. 92.Make your visitors more involved in your website. You can help accomplish this by adding CGI scripts to your site. 93.Make sure you have no broken links on your site, and make sure that your website shows clearly in all browsers. 94.Find domain names that get traffic, purchase them, and have them redirect to your website. 95.Spell correctly whenever using keywords in writing. 96.Look at sites related to your niche to try to figure out how they get their traffic. 97.Properly optimize your website for the right keywords. 98.Try to avoid java scripts on your website as much as possible. 99.Do not use frames on your website. 100. If your website becomes popular and starts getting lots of traffic, try switching to a dedicated server. The longer you site is down equals the more lost visitors you will have. 101. Write a quality 101 article about a steamy topic that people want to know more about in your niche . Doug (c)http://www.imutopia.com/ __________________

The best way to build blog traffic is to first wait until you have at least 15 posts... no one takes a blog seriously if it has only 2 posts. Then you need to submit your blog to blog directories like Technorati, Blogexplosion, Blog Directory, Blog Catalog, and so forth. Do a search for blog directories. Then you need to search Google or Technorati for blogs that are similar in content and topic to your blog. Set up an account with Blogrolling for free and swap links with these blog owners. Most will be happy to trade links with you. Also, contribute to other blogs in the way of commenting on their blog posts. DO NOT leave a comment that says, "Come visit my blog at xyz.com!" That is useless and you will be spammed. Do not leave a comment unless you can think of something useful to say that is on topic and adds to the discussion on their blog. Don't promote your blog in comments... just enter you url and take part in discussions. Blog traffic can take time to build. You need to have interesting content that isn't stolen, nonsensical, or boring.

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You could start by posting a link here. That'll get some views at least. As for promoting it on a larger scale I'm not too sure.

There is no magic bullet. To get traffic, you have to generate interest in your posts. The best way to do that is to write about either interesting stuff or controversial stuff. That doesn't mean those are the only roads to lots of traffic, but they'll get traffic fast. Personally I say give the readers something of substance. Getting visits is one thing. Keeping them is another.

Submit it to blog directories and blog pinging sites.

keep asking interesting questions i guess?

try looking at anothers source code

Post more stuff a lot of people would be interested in. That may sound like a pat answer, but it's like asking, "What's the best way to get more people to read my books?"

Post articles to sites like http://www.articlelogy.com/ You get to include a little blurb about you and your blog at the bottom. if they are half good articles then they get picked up by webmasters and in no time they are all over the net. Even if they are slow at getting picked up your link is still on the page, do many sites and you are off.

submit your blog to ALL the search engines, it might take some time but the spiders will start coming. Use: http://pingomatic.com/

Write something interesting instead of the usual crud that seems to fill the internet.

Uplink your blog site to all of the other websites that you are a member to as well as pay a browser such as Google to get premium placing for web searches so that you are in the front position. Always never forget to promote and if you have to sign guest books that are related to your blood and shamelessly but tactfully promote your blog. Make sure that you are reaching your desired demographics and use every medium available to you in which to reach them in an effective manner. Branch out and diversify all the channels that you can increase net traffic.

All of the answers here are really good and point to the fact that you have to include a lot of different things to get good blog traffic. High quality content, links to other blogs, use of images in your blog, social promotion on social networking and social bookmarking sites and being active as a commenter on blogs related to yours are all great ways to start increasing traffic to your blog. I also think that blog carnivals (http://www.ehow.com/how_4799750_use-blog-carnival-increase-traffic.html) are a terrific way to get some new blog traffic. They give you direct links to your blog as well as a way to network with other blogs. 25 ways to get links to your blog: http://hubpages.com/hub/25-Ways-to-Get-Links-to-your-Blog

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Go through given below step that will help you to get traffic.. 1. Use lists. 2. Be topical... write posts that need to be read right now. 3. Learn enough to become the expert in your field. 4. Break news. 5. Be timeless... write posts that will be readable in a year. 6. Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic. 7. Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you. 8. Announce news. 9. Write short, pithy posts. 10. Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list. 11. Don't write about your cat, your boyfriend or your kids. 12. Write long, definitive posts. 13. Write about your kids. 14. Be snarky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog. 15. Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back. 16. Include polls, meters and other eye candy. 17. Tag your posts. Use del.ico.us. 18. Coin a term or two. 19. Do email interviews with the well-known. 20. Answer your email. 21. Use photos. Salacious ones are best. 22. Be anonymous. 23. Encourage your readers to digg your posts. (and to use furl and reddit). Do it with every post. 24. Post your photos on flickr. 25. Encourage your readers to subscribe by RSS. 26. Start at the beginning and take your readers through a months-long education. 27. Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself. 28. Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers. 29. Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo lens. 30. Point to useful but little-known resources. 31. Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers--like gadgets and web 2.0. 32. Write about Google. 33. Have relevant ads that are even better than your content. 34. Don't include comments, people will cross post their responses. 35. Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you. 36. Run no ads. 37. Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle. 38. Write about blogging. 39. Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day. 40. Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction. 41. Post on weekdays, because there are more readers. 42. Write about a never-ending parade of different topics so you don't bore your readers. 43. Post on weekends, because there are fewer new posts. 44. Don't interrupt your writing with a lot of links. 45. Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger. 46. Edit yourself. Ruthlessly. 47. Don't promote yourself and your business or your books or your projects at the expense of the reader's attention. 48. Be patient. 49. Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful. 50. Ping technorati. Or have someone smarter than me tell you how to do it automatically. 51. Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive. 52. Write in English. 53. Better, write in Chinese. 54. Write about obscure stuff that appeals to an obsessed minority. 55. Don't be boring. 56. Write stuff that people want to read and share. Hope it helps you.