Forum is one of the best way to bring traffic to your website. You can also do an Article Marketing and Social bookmarking.
the best method is that you create unique and quality content for attracting organic traffic from search engines.
Here are a few tips to improve traffic to your blog - Promote your blog post on social networking websites - Install social networking widgets on your blog - Publish quality wall post on your profile page - Promote your blog on niche related forums - Comment on niche related blogs - Try to make your blog interactive (encourage people to comment on your blog and allow guest posting) - You can integrate videos on your blog and promote those videos on different video distribution sites - Guest Blogging Guest blogging works best for me. I use Keyword Country to find niche-related, high-authority blogs to guest post on...My loyal partner it is!
Do blog Directory submissions Of your website and Do share your blog URL in all Social Networking websites.
Contents in your blog is also play an important role in bringing more traffic and repeated visitor/reader. This is what i've learn from DP here from some of the member,.
Blog directory submission. But which directory to submit to? Old crowded directory or newly established directories? Btw, I want to share this new directory, looks new - www.blogsdb.com -blogsdb(dot)com (domain name sounds like jobsdb.com).
How many times do you post a new article per day? Try posting 4-5 new unique quality articles per day everyday. Your blog will start getting hundreds of visitors/day very soon.
I think first in this series- Your website should be attractive Having quality contents You should take part in blog top sites like: topblogsites.net, blogtopsites.com, top100bloggers.com etc, Join conversation- by leaving comments, when you comment to others blog leave your blog address there.
As per as I concerned, for blog, commenting to related blog posts are very efficient. In addition you can try listing your blog to relevant quality web directories and get some back-links from social bookmarking websites.
Use youtube,,, a great source of traffic and you wont have a hard time ranking the videos that points to your site..
pinging your link of blog on social networking sites will help you get it popularized and thus how it gets promoted.. Allow users to subscribe to your blog through rss feeds
Must be Fresh unique and informatics post on your blog. Share your blog post on social networking websites (facebook, google+, twitter, linkedin etc) to generate traffic for your blog site.
i would also like to know if there are any ways to increase the traffic of a blog. I have regular post to Twitter, Facebook, stumble upon, linked in, google+ But the traffic is not huge