How do you drive traffic to your blogs?

What tips can you enlighten us with on your methods of driving traffic to your blog(s)? I know great content is an answer a lot of people give, but what other tips can you impart that has worked for you. I am keen on your hearing your own experience rather than just writing down popular methods.

 

List of magical hit generators:

Content
Links (Comment on do follow blogs)
StumbleUpon
StumbleUdon
Sumbit to numberous RSS sites (feedburner et al.)

 

ok.

content.
links.
advertisstment.
friends.
sitehoppin.
entrecard.
linkreferral.
digg.
sUBMIT TO DIRECTORIES.
COMMENT ON ONE DAY OLD BLOGS

 

update fresh content everyday coment on high pr blog and submite to any social bookmark.

 

Good quality content posted regularly (daily). A note about entrecard a lot of people are blowing it, checkout the following article why this is:

http://www.thekaizenbusiness.com/?p=187

 

I receive a lot of traffic from Google Images. Other than that, Entrecard brings a lot of traffic to my site.
I would also recommend Stumbeupon.

 

check out mybloglog. Or check my blog out and see how I do it. I moved 200 uniques per day in 1 week

 

I focus on writing posts with a main keyword and try to optimize that post for the keyword. If I can get it ranked on page 1 or 2 in google I'll get a ok amount of traffic from it. Do that for about 10 - 20 posts and you get a steady flow of traffic and best of all targeted traffic.

 

For me, it's all about SEO and organic traffic. That drives traffic, conversions, leads, and loyal readers : )

 

Submit your blog(s) to at least 200 of RSS blog directories - www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55

 

I would do a search on the main search engines with your main keyword or phrase, along with the term blog, or forum, or discussion board. ex. traffic blog, traffic forum..... and then go to those sites, visit them often, and participate in them.

The MOST IMPORTANT THING, make sure your signature box has a good description of what you do, and a link back to your site if they allow it, with a Do Follow ability like mentioned above by Saiyanora.

If you offer some good answers there, along with your link back to your blog, it will soon generate some traffic.
Be sure to have your keywords as part of your hyperlink too.

If youre posting on sites that arent relevant to your topic, youre not going to get related, interested traffic.

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You can take a look at my Squidoo Lens about blog promotion.

 

Try social networks... myspace, orkut, face book etc.

Mudassar

 

I like using SEO for traffic. Get a lot of links from other blogger blogs if you are trying to get up in Google. As google owns blogger, they love links from blogger blogs.

 

Build content first, submit to social bookmarking, talk on forums,comment on blogs, build relationships with niche bloggers,optimize for SEO (google 'seo tips' or similar keywords and find out how), have patience =)