I'd also like to add press releases and web 2.0 profiles (clean and unspammy) then also sites like Yahoo Answers is good. Do all these then ping your content pointing to your site.
You can create highly targeted traffic to your website by writing good quality articles with Original Content and submitting them to Ezinearticles.com and Goarticles.com. This will bring you a lot of traffic if you do this on a regular basis. It must be Original content. Duplicate content wont be accepted.
Getting traffic is hard work - that is at least what i have found. It really need lots of dedication. Thee are so many ways to get traffic. But the best thing that works for me is article writing. Write some good quality article and put those in some good article directories such as articlebase. Don't forget to introduce yourself and your site. If possible write something related to your blog and put links to your blog. That way you can get quite good traffic.
Yes! This. Every other thread is "How do I SEO?" Write some good crap, and it'll happen naturally. That's the point of Google. We don't want anyone's crap getting into our SERPs, so they exist simply to develop the best way of filtering good quality content to the top of the results. You want to be there, make good content.
I think at first you must write quality content. Then, do some basic tips : 1. Leaving comment on other blogs. I have a post about leave smart comments: http://techsharing.net/the-art-of-smart-commenting.html 2. Optimize Your site : title, keyword, description,.... 3. Writing guest posts. 4. Building relationship I know newbie blogger want to do SEO but my advice is: CONTENT is KING. Without Content, How you can bring real traffic ?
Good quality content does wonders for blogs..post that and people will come back to your blog and invite others too to check out your quality blog..Also remember to leave useful comments on other people's blogs..
Traffic Exchange like 2leep.com, 2lava.com or Zaparena.com , that can help to promote your blog too. By adding widget of them on your site.
A big question mark is always there to find the correct way each and every one says good and quality content and backlinks but where comes the keyword research to find the keywords which generates more traffic this is real important rather thant good quality content and backlinks comes 2nd
Write good articles that really helpful for readers. Publish your new postings on Twitter, Facebook networks. Commenting on other blog of similar interests.