Here's a piece of statistics: 10,000 hits my 21-day-old blog in 24 hours. The truth is, this number this not emerge out of the blues. Indeed, it's no number at all. It's made up of real people with flesh, blood and mind. Many people are stuck in the midst of technical jargons when it comes to Adsense, SEO and traffic generation generally. Such words as 'niche', 'long-tail' and more. But here's a way to get traffic without having to pass through all that drudgery: Think of some one (just one) somewhere across the big world that needs your info. Seek relentlessly to be of help. Now to get down to specifics, go to Google and imagine people in all kinds of situations and think of how they are searching for solution in your area or niche. Identify with their ego, and search for what you would search for if you were in their position. Once you get the search result, click on number one item and find a way of leaving traces of your site there without going against the rule. reshuffle the search item severally and each time leave traces such as through a comment. Might take time but it's worth it.
And how it is not "relentless"? Basically you are saying to write something after searching and searching and searching for the information that one might need. Write on that and comment on all the blogs which appears at the top of search result? If those results are at the top, people who reaches there already get what they want. So probability of further navigation will be minimum. Lets assume that the reader does not get the information, then he scrolls through comments. Like you many had already commented! So they keep opening the comments? No way. They may open one or two. But they will go back to Google page and click on the second result. If they dont get the information first hand from the first page, they will change the query. Again reader will start watching the result from the first page. I think, it is therefore wise to try to be on that first page, rather than leaving a trace of your site on the first page. Getting 10,000 hits is not significant, getting it daily for 6 months is significant. So it is better to be on the first page for a search term with more than 10,000 monthly search. Then if you work on reducing the bounce rate and have many quality pages, an average of 5page view/visit will ensure not less than 40,000 page views. with 1%CTR and 1$ CPC, that single Keyword fetches you 400$. Now ensure the same for atleast 10 keywords. "Takes Time................... but far more worth, from technical and probability point of view"
You're right but this tactic is to help newbies. I noticed they get thrown off by the complexity of SEO especially when it comes to terminology. I say this from experience: How I worked it over: Post on sites that are already in first positions, and you'll get exposure and get there yourself fast.