Blog - Best ways to send lots of new traffic to it

[Jamesx187]

hey, james here... i've been running a small blog now for a little over a year, and just recently after reading alot on some of these different forums ive started trying to monetize my blog with adsense and am looking to find different easy ways to send lots of new traffic. So far since i started ive just been dropping alot of links in comments i post on others blogs.. and doing social bookmarking which is where most of my traffic comes from using the automated software from http://www.bmdemon.pcti-system.com .. which im sure most of you are probably using also. But I was jus curious, as im still fairly new to this, what are some other easy effective ways i could drive alot of new traffic to my blog? And furthermore, for those other methods for traffic are you aware of any effective software like bm demon that will automate those methods for me that isnt going to cost me much?? As I work 40 hours a week and often find myself with very limited time to work on this project... Any advice / comments / suggestions would be very appreciated!! thanks

[lenesyn]

Aside from blog commenting and social bookmarking, you can participate on the following strategies:

- article submissions
- classified ads
- directory submissions
- forum posting
- link exchange
- press release

[algernonroy]

For blogs, a good way to get backlinks is to submit every post to a blog carnival. For longtail keywords, you can rank well with only a couple inbound links, which you can get from these blog carnivals.
You might also check out some free seo guides, do a search on google for free seo ebook and download a couple of those, 30 minutes of reading will likely give you some good ideas.

[4U2NV]

You can also try social networking, it will help your site to gain more traffic as well..

[franky123]

Social bookmarking is the best way to invite traffic in bulk. These days twitter is getting popularity as a traffic generation tool.