There are literally hundreds of ways to drive traffic to your blog. Here are effective methods you can use to get started:

1. Frequent posting often will help increase your blog’s ranking in search engines and is essential to the survival of any blog. As a lot of bloggers claim, three posts a week is a minimum and three times a day is where you begin to see some serious traffic.

2. Make your voice heard among the thousands of pages competing for search engine placement and ad revenue by submitting your blog RSS feed to My Yahoo!, Google’s Reader and other RSS directories and search engines.

3. Most blog owners will readily provide abundant natural links to content that interests them and their readership or even freely create permanent links to their regularly read blogs from their own home blog pages. With this, exchanging links or trackbacks with other bloggers in your niche is perhaps the best way to drive traffic to your site.

4. Ping your blogs every time you post new content. By pinging blog search engines, your blog’s content will be indexed in a much more timely manner, which could lead to additional search traffic, which could, in turn, lead to new inbound links if other bloggers who found you blog’s content interesting and link-worthy

5. Leave useful comments on other blogs often. Visit some blogs everyday and leave useful comments on all of them. If your comments help other or if they find your comment useful they will surely come to your site.

6. Contribute valuable info forums and discussion boards related to your website’s niche. You can create a forum signature that has your website address. Your info on the forum will generate website traffic from your signature link from forum users in your post.

7. Tagging your blog posts is a way of getting people to find what you’re writing, not just organizing for yourself. Sites such as Technorati and Del.icio.us allows users to tag their blog postings, making searching and sorting of blogs easier.