if your site is news related site then you have to add fresh news and after that do some social bookmarking...but this work must be done regular basis.
Comment is the good way for new website to get traffic and i also increasing your backlink. I think so
now a days people getting more and more traffic from social media sites so just try to do that for traffic
1: Article Marketing 2: Social Media Optimization 3: Pay-Per-Click Advertising 4: Blog posting 5: Social Media Marketing This are best solution for increasing good traffic.
Social Bookmarking sites are good source of increasing traffic to the websites & blogs. You will get tons more traffic if you submit your site manually. And your efforts will pay off. You can not only just save our favorite websites and send them to our friends, but you can easily spread your site link to other peoples.
One simple way is to leave comments on news related blogs, with a link to your site, or a much long term strategy is writing articles, since it's a news site you can find plenty of material to write about, and submit to some of the top article directories, like Ezinearticles and Goarticles
best thing is that .. upload a forum on your site .. and do little marketing on your forum ... so you will get a lots of visitors.. like http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/ admin make a forum on his site for get a lots of visitors .. http://forum.graphicdesignblog.org/ and now he got to many visitors on his site though his forum ..!! tooo Smart
Quality of backlinks you need and also drives more traffic to your website! Submitting to directories is a good way. Social Bookmarking and Blog Commenting also helps to drive traffic to your site.
If you have newsworthy information then a press release (there are tons of free press release sites on the web) will help, tied in with all the advice from the previous commentators
i suggest making your blog a dofollow which should help you gain traffic - more people will read and they will also post comments since it will help them out as well. but make sure to have a good spam plugin.
They're are so many ways to get traffic to your website. A few are submitting your sitemap to Google inside Google's webmasters tools, tell your friends, PPC advertising with Google, talk on forums and have a signature link to your website. Comment on blogs with a backlink to your website/blog. Create and post articles on ezine articles.
If you need to increase the traffic then concentrate on off page activities like social bookmarking, social networking, article submission and forum posting.
There are lots of ways in which you can get more visitors for your websites. -directory submission -social media networking like Facebook and Twitter -participate in blog/forum posting -bookmarking