1) Submit your unique articles to social bookmark sites

This is huge. As a unknown blogger, I submitted an article to Reddit. The article made it as high as 47, which is the 2nd page, and my blog got over 1000 unique visitors in the day that followed. Digg and Del-ici-ous, are other examples of popular social bookmarking sites that will help generate traffic for your blog. I don’t think it is a good idea to submit every article. However, it will certainly help if you submit the articles that you are proud of, think are good, or if the post is breaking some form of news.

2) Submit your blog to blog directories

Search Google for blog directories, and sign up to some of the directories. This may get some visitors to your site.

3) Post Popular blogs

Post on popular blogs, particularly on blogs with a high ranking on sites like Technorati. It is helpful if your comment is near the top. On uber popular blogs like pro blogger there are often 100′s of comments left. So as I am sure you can imagine most readers don’t bother to read through them all. So getting in early and leaving a comment near the top of a blog will probably get you a few visitors.

Leveraging social bookmarking sites, and becoming a regular on popular blogs should help gain your blog some traffic, and also in the long term gain you as a blogger a higher profile… now for something cheeky…

A cheeky (or silly) idea that will work, but you probably shouldn’t do:

Pretend you are selling your site and list it on web sites that have listings for web site sales. It will defiantly get your site some hits, however it will probably have an adverse affect on your readership as they may find out and think you are abandoning them. You may also run into a small problem if someone wants to buy – so set the selling price as something ridiculously high…I mean don’t be silly, don’t do this at all!!