How to gain more website traffic?

For me article submission, social bookmarking, forum posting, blog commenting, yahoo question and answer's are good way to promote and drive traffic to your websites.

Classified ads, press releases can help promote your site too.. You can get quality of inbound links using this strategies..

Once again is traffic exchange. They are a good and fast result too. And you can also get a networking from them.

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Social bookmarking is the best way to get more traffic.Syndicate your blog updates to twitter,digg,stumbleupon,technorati,delicious this can make good result .Submit your twitter into more twitter directories.Yahoo answers is another one resource.

Has anybody ever bought traffic? Does that even actually work?

It would also help to tap social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Include fresh content that will attract people to join your group or participate in community forums.

get more and more quality back links so you can generate more traffics on your sites.
try to do social bookmarking and article submission.
this is also best way to generate traffic.

content, origianl, useful and unqiue content always be the trump card in the website promotion , it just attarcts natural traffic !

Originally Posted by kashirakaze Has anybody ever bought traffic? Does that even actually work?

Depends what traffic you buy. But mostly it wont work.

1) Offer free, original, and quality content on your site
2) Optimize high traffic keywords related to your business
3) Advertise your website in Google or other high traffic webs.
4) Give freebies, for example, free million dollar contest, free gifts, free horoscope
5) Get more external links
6) Improve general search engine optimization
7) Increase page rank
8) offer resource page links like Google Tools, SEO Tool, SEO Solutions
9) Update your web more frequently which your audience love to get feeded.
10) Exchanging advertising or links.