Well, easiest way... Buy adwords, i.e. get google to place add next to the relevant search results and in blogs and stoff. To compete in the search results itself there is a lot of work and knowledge involved if the keywords you compete on are competetive.
You need 2 things: - Quality, unique content - Patience Unless you pay for Adwords etc you won't get a huge amount of traffic fast. Good luck.
Build backlinks. Build backlinks. Build backlinks. A repeating process. But do it and you won't regret it once the money starts flowing in.
Join community websites like facebook, twitter and other top sites. Share ideas, provide solutions and talk about your business there. That act will definitely help to fetch traffic to your website. And this is free, you just need spend time...no money. Try this
Learn about all the marketing techniques that you can apply for the website, then work on them. You gotta do hard to work to get good results.
I usually get 2k hits per day by using twitter trends. If you have adsense then you can surely earn some $$$
Read through some of the more active threads on the first several pages of the General Marketing and Link Development forums here. You'll find some fantastic methods to improve your site's traffic.
according to me the best way to get higher traffic is to take help of seo strategies such as 1. social bookmarking 2. directory submission 3. article submission 4. link bating 5. press release.
You can also try building squidoo lenses with fresh and unique content, video marketing and like the guys said. Social media in general.
a lot of people opt for traffic exchanges which can translate into hundreds of thousands of hits i don't promise anything about quality hits, but in the way of hits, it is a great, easy and free way.
If you have a service, offer giveaways. People love free stuff. Also you can ask bloggers to write some reviews or buy paid reviews because blogs are generating a lot of traffic.
Do all the promotion techniques. By doing SMO. Participate in social networks like twitter. It really helps you to gain your traffic. You just need to learn the right process on how to handled it.