Traffic is what ultimately counts. My top 3 ways to drive traffic: 1. SEO (organic searches) 2. Article marketing 3. Forum posting What's yours?
Well there's many methods you can use of course. My number one would have to be Search Engine Optimization. After that comes all the traffic from my other sites, and then my last method would be to buy traffic from other sites, I don't get much luck when I email blogs to get them to write articles about my site, but i'm sure if you have the time it can be quite effective.
1. Organic Traffic 2. Youtube 3. Social bookmarking and yahoo answers tied My main source is organic google traffic. Its around 90% of my 14k daily uniques