Tips to Increase your Blog Traffic

1. Hit the Counters:
A great source of traffic is search engines, so why not leverage them to their fullest before worrying about anything else. By following these simple steps, you can increase your rankings and increase your search traffic.
2. Don’t be panic:
There is always something hot in the blogosphere, just keep an eye out for what’s hot and make sure to join in on the conversation. This can boost traffic and links almost immediately. This article was taken by a handful of other bloggers and ended up becoming the 16 rules of social media optimization. This did not only create tons of links for the original article, but it also created tons of links for all the other bloggers who added to it.
3. Create some :
Social media sites like Digg, Del.icio.us and Netscape are all great sources of traffic. If you can get on the homepage of any of these sites you will get thousands of visitors within minutes and potentially thousands of new regular readers. These sites are mainly driven by votes so make sure your readers can vote for you by placing social bookmark buttons within your posts in order to have the best chance of success. Just try to add value with your content and you’ll have the best chance.
4.Don’t be a link :
By linking to others within your blog posts and showing some link love, other people will likely link back to you. The more generous you are the more generous others will be to you. Sooner or later this tactic will increase the number of sites linking to you which can ultimately help drive traffic.
5. Be a drama queen
By being constructively and tastefully confrontational you can get tons of traffic.
Most of these items almost deserve a post on their own to explain why they work and what they are really doing however sometimes it helps to keep things simple. The overarching theme here is really about being as proactive as possible and putting some work into getting out there more. If you put more energy behind getting your voice out there, your traffic will respond.