10 Tips to Increase blog traffic

1. Write Well and Write Often : Frequently updating your blog with
useful content is the first step to
building your blog's audience. The
content you write is what will keep
readers coming back for more. Make
sure you have something meaningful to say to them and say it often tomaintain their interest and keep them loyal.
2. Submit Your Blog to Search
Engines :
Get on the radar screen for the popular search engines such as
Google and Yahoo! by submitting your blog's URL to them. Most search engines provide a 'Submit' link (or something similar) to notify the search engine of your new blog, so those search engines will crawl it and include your pages in their results.
3. Use and Update Your Blogroll :
By adding links to sites you like in
your blogroll, the owners of those blogs will find your blog and will be
likely to add a reciprocal link in their
blogrolls. It's an easy way to get the
link to your blog in front of many
readers on other blogs. The hope is
that some of those readers will click on the link to your blog on the other blogs' blogrolls and find your content interesting and enjoyable turning them into loyal readers.
4. Harness the Power of Comments :
Commenting is a simple and essential tool to increase your blog's traffic. First, respond to comments left on your blog to show your readers that you value their opinions and draw them into a two-way conversation.This will increase reader loyalty.
5. Syndicate Your Blog's Content with an RSS Feed :
Setting up an RSS feed button on your blog makes it easy for your loyal readers to not just read your blog but also know when you publish new content.
6. Use Links and Trackbacks :
Links are one of the most powerful parts of your blog. Not only are links noticed by search engines, but the also act as a tap on the shoulder to other bloggers who can easily identify who is linking to their sites. Linking helps to get you noticed by other bloggers who are likely to investigate the sites that are linking to them.This may lead them to become new readers of your blog or to add links to your blog from theirs.
7. Tag Your Posts :
It takes a few extra seconds to add tags to each of your blog posts, but it's worth the time in terms of the
additional traffic tags can drive to your blog. Tags (like links) are easily
noticed by search engines. They're
also key to helping readers find your blog when they perform searches on popular blog search engines such as Technorati.
8. Submit Your Posts to Social
Bookmarking Sites :
Taking the time to submit your best
posts to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and more can be a simple way to quickly boost traffic to your blog.
9. Remember Search Engine
Optimization :
When you write your blog posts and pages, remember to optimize you pages for search engines to find them.Include relevant keywords and links but don't overload your posts with too
many relevant keywords or completely irrelevant keywords. Doing so can be considered spamming and could have negative results such as your blog being removed from Google's search entirely.
10. Don't Forget Images :
Images don't just make your blog
look pretty, they also help people find you in search engine listings. People often use the image search options offered by Google, Yahoo! and other search engines, and naming your images with search engine optimization in mind can easily boost your traffic.