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As has been mentioned, the single best way to develop dependable, long term traffic is to simply keep posting!

Quality content of course, but at first it also helps to know specifically what people are looking to find out in your niche. Visit more popular blogs to view their chosen topics, use the web2.0 social tools to see which content is the most popular, and use forums/newsgroups to identify demands for information which have not been supplied.

Within a relatively short period of time (not more than a couple months with regular posting), you can begin using your visitor tracking software to look for keyphrases people type in to reach your site. This will provide you with a continuous source of new possible in demand topics.

Other techniques which are usually especially effective for blogs include forum postings, blog commenting & track-backs, and adding posts with well written headlines/descriptions to social networking sites.. how to's and top 10 type posts work well for this.

Of course, it also helps to have incoming links from other sites; acquire them from major directories and other legitimate, relevant websites when you can. However, continue posting new content and you will find both that you rank for unique, low competition keyphrases and that you will gradually acquire new backlinks as other webmasters find your website more useful.

And this is the major point everyone is attempting to make here. Once your website becomes a truly useful resource for many people, you have made a quality contribution to the web and to the lives of others. When this happens, you will become successful.

It takes more time, but I think everyone will agree with me - its worth it in the long run.

Kevin