Ways to get good traffic to your blog/website

"I have a site full of rich contents. What I don't have and am dying to get is VISITORS..."Almost every  site owner faces such trouble. If you are one of them, then read this article carefully. Every site owner has his own way of promoting and bringing valuable visitors to it. There can be hundreds of ways that can be implemented to promote a website. But surely there are some ways that every site owner can follow to drive more traffic to their websites.

1. Using MY Yahoo service – submit your website rss feed on My yahoo as that will help your website to get indexed quickly on Yahoo.
2. Submitting to Google Reader – when you submit your site rss to Google reader, it will be fastly crawled by Google blog search.
3. Using the pinging services – Use the pinging services like ping-o-matic every time you add new content on your website for getting more visibility and links for your website.
4. Submitting to search engines – Don’t forget to submit your website to big search engines like Google, yahoo, msn, AltaVista, Ask.com etc.
5. Submission to web directories – Submit it to top web directories like dmoz.org, Yahoo Directory, Business.com, Best of the web.
6. Free SEO services- There are many Free SEO service providers online. Search then out and submit your site to them. In return, they may ask you to link their site in your website or blog.
7. RSS submission – Add your website/blog to as many rss submission directories and search engines you can.
8. Value added comments on websites/blogs – Commenting on other websites and blogs of your niche is also a great idea to get some valuable links as well as traffic to your web page. If you leave a value added comment there, many people will click on our website to know more about you and your website. But don’t spam other people website/blog and don’t get lazy in writing comments on related sites. When you regularly visit and comment on a website, that will be noticed by its readers. So commenting on other people page can give many valuable readers as well as link to your website
9. Using in E-mail signature – link back to your website in your e-mail signature section. When you use it regularly for all of your out-going mails, you will see that you start getting some traffic through your signature that is clicked by people whom you send your e-mail
10. Using Groups – You can use Yahoo group, Google group,  msn group and many more group for building more traffic for their website. when you think of getting visitors from such groups, go for your niche specific groups and if possible create your won group there and continuously work on that to bring more people to your site.
11. Using forums – Forums as well can be used to drive more links and visitors to your site. Join any forum related to your site and share your views and invite others to visit your site/blog.
12. Article submission – You can use article websites like ezinearticles, americanchronicle, findarticles, goarticles, articlecity etc kind of top article submission websites to get quality links and visitors from their sites.
13. Link exchange – Link exchange is still effective. There are many website owners who still use link trading as their main source of getting quality links for their website. And when your website has good back links for their targeted anchor text, your site will surely drive high amount of traffic from search engines.
14. Social media marketing – Create strong profile on social media sites like Digg, propeller, Reddit, Newsvine and submit your favorite stories there. Never forget to link your site/blog there.
15. Squidoo, Hubpages and InfoBarrel– Go to these websites and create your lens and hubs there. It will not take more than 15 minutes to setup a hub on hubpages.com and a lens on squidoo.com.
16. Wikipedia kind of open sources – If you have a popular website, why not create a page for your website on wikipedia.org. With this one can add their website pages link in the existing wiki pages. But add only relevant links on wikipages otherwise your link will be removed from there. And if you tried to over spam it, your site get banned and then you will not be able to add any link from that domain on wikipedia.org. There are some more wiki about how to manual including ehow.com, wikihow.com
17. Mybloglog typy communities – Create your account on mybloglog, blog catalog, bumpzee some of cool blogging communities. These communities will help you het in touch with other people/blogger of your niche. You can use these kinds of communities to drive traffic and valuable link for your website. Create communities, make friends, add people as contacts, join others communities, messaging and add their widget to your website/blog
18. Using press release – Press releases are great tools for traffic building and brand building for a website. This will bring lots of traffic and valuable links to a website. So write a press release for your website and submit it to PrWeb.com & Webwire.com
19. Traffic Exchange programs – There are many traffic exchange programs available on the internet one can use to add more traffic to their existing visitors count. When you search on Google for ‘traffic exchange’, you will be able to get lots of traffic exchange sites there.
20. Free and paid classified programs – You can drive more traffic and links for their website using free and paid classifieds. Search Google.com for free classifieds, you will get lots of classified sites there.
21. Yahoo Answer type of services – You can use Yahoo Answer, Answerbag, and allexperts.com kind of question answering websites to bring more people to your web page.
22. PPC programs – Use pay per click kind of advertising to get more results for your site. When you use such kind of programs, your site will be listing in the sponsored section in search results on a search engine. All major search engines including Google, yahoo, MSN have their advertising programs.

These are some of ways to bring more people to your website. There will be many more ways for traffic building on a website. Try these out and search on net for any other ways to get high amount of traffic to your site/blog. Best Of Luck.