Just posted this in another thread, but oh well.
There are
many ways of building traffic...
Obviously content is king, but if all you do is create content and don't worry about anything else, you probably won't get a lot of traffic, at least not for a long time. "If you build it they will come" is generally not a good method of getting traffic.
Best ideas that have worked for me:
- Link Exchanges (obviously is key for search engines and generating traffic from there)
- Comments on similar blogs - Often results in a reciprocal comment or link
Obviously it's a lot more complicated than that, but that is what has worked best for me, along with the creation of good content.