I have a site http://mumbaiproperties.info... I started a blog regarding Properties and Real Estate in Mumbai..Please go through the blog http://mumbaiproperties.info/blog/ and let me know some suggestions in order to increase the traffic..
Submit your blog to relevant blog directories. Do social bookmarking, create a XML sitemap of your blog. You are using wordpress. There's a couple of Sitemap generator plugins available for wordpress. Once you have your XML sitemap in place, submit it to Google Webmasters tools and Yahoo site explorer. The sitemap won't help in gaining traffic but you will see how many of your pages are indexed.
Add some quality content, submit in blog directories, add feeds in feeds directories, promote on Social Media sites like stumbleupon, digg, twitter. comments others blog with same themes.
I recommend doing some keyword research and writing blog posts that cater to your audience. Real Estate can be a tough subject to blog about and get traffic. You are better off to write about your area and what is happening than just writing market reports and blogging about listings. I would research popular events and hot spots in Mumbai. Maybe write a restaurant review for a popular restaurant. Be creative and write quality content and your traffic will increase naturally. You also want to write better title tags. Your title tag is the most important onsite SEO tool you have. Make sure to use your keywords in your title tag, but don't over do it.
First of all, make sure you use unique content that attracts visitors. Secondly, start commenting on other blogs relating to your niche. If you can write well, do some press releases or article submission to directories, get involved in discussion on major forums with a signature link of your blog. Traffic increases slowly and steadily.
I guess proper optimization on your blog will give you more traffic... get more good back links.. use those SEO strategies that you have in mind.
yes, anisbd said some good ways to start off. You should also update your blog regularly with unique content/
adding your blog to directories can help build backlinks, doing social bookmarking can add great ammount of traffic going to your blog, forum posting sigs really help and its doubled when your in a great and well known forums... Pinging can be done by tools so don't worry about it...