I have a new blog too, and I've never tried to get traffic before. There seem to be many conflicting opinions on good SEO strategy, here. My blog is also based on finance - personal finance only though, so I will look for some good forums and blogs. You guys are all so helpful!
Yes there are many conflicting ideas you just have to pick one and run with it. Do some research and make a decision then stick with it. SEO is not an instant thing.
Traffic depends on spreading much of your links to other places which can be easily visited. This is your traffic sourcce.
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First of all you have to learn about basic seo and Seo work for your blog may more help to get more and more traffics. More traffics + your site popularity + more earning. Traffics sources:- 1. write article and publish them 2. join social networking sites 3. add your site to socialbookmarking sites 4. join more and more do follow forums 6. write content to your blog and update regular, this point is powerful.
Article marketing through ezinearticles has done wonders for my websites, but it is really time consuming. Or another tactic is something similar to a link wheel.