There are many different ways, the best ways I have found are, Forum participation Blog commenting Article marketing Guest posting They really do help increase traffic, but all of them are short term traffic, they bring a lot of traffic in for a short period if time, for constant long term traffic, the search engines are the way to go. All of those different ways I have mentioned, are explained more in blog post at my blog, if you want to check it out, I am sure it will help you, if you want even moe help leave a comment on the post you want help with and I will go into more detail about the subject. I hope it will help you, the link is, http://jgblogging.com John
Yeah definately, seo is the best way to bring traffic, but it is a long term source, you will not get much traffic from search engines at the beginning. By doing seo early you are helping your chances of high rankings further down the line
Forum posting - You need to add blog link into your signature. Article marketing - You need to add blog link into author bio. Blog commenting - Post interesting comments on relevant blogs. Google adwords and Facebook advertising - Advertising using proper keywords.
There are many threads here to answer your question. I can suggest to consistently drive traffic to your website throug forum posting, blog commenting, social bookmarking. There are lots social network websites in the internet. You just have to be diligent enough to find them. Also, posts more content-rich articles.
You can increase blog traffic by doing link building. You can do directory submission, Feed submissions, social bookmarking and prepare one article and promote it. You can also grab a huge traffic by doing social networking. Micro blogging is also one of the most important part to grab more traffics.
Simply sharing your site in Social networking, Social bookmarking, Forum posting, Article posting of SEO Off page optimization. Finally, create the RSS feed & attach the same in your blog. Doing all these will give you a tremendous traffic for your blog.
Honestly there are tons of tips and same topics in this blog. They will all work, but also depends on your content.
The best way to get traffic is by using twitter. create a fan page for your blog.just like i created "picxy pro photography" in facebook.you will get many fans ,try suggesting page to friends ask other people to suggest.Contact other bloggers via email or blog comments. post their blog link in your blog and then inform them.try to find blogs with page rank.non page ranked blog will also help in getting traffic.Join "mybloglog" a yahoo service for all bolgs and website where you can create community send messages.Using stumble upon,add blog to technorati,submit blog to major blog directories,Last but no the least Word of mouth