How to increase traffic of blog/website

1. User right blogging software (refer to this post : Two of My Favorite Blogging Softwares)
2. For traffic you need content, so write at least 1 article per day or atleast 5-6 article a week
3. Submit your blog to search engines
4. Submit your blog to pings
5. Write original content
6. Give a good post title and keywords (How to Write A Blog Post : Some tips)
7. Create a network with other bloggers
8. Comment, comment and comment on other blogs
9. Reply to comments (if needed)
10. If possible, be the first one to write a comment
11. Join forums and put your site’s link as signature
12. Learn basis of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
13. Do both offsite and onsite SEO of your blog
14. User social networking websites
15. Interlink your posts
16. Try to interlink your posts to other blogs also (remember, the topic should be same)
17. Write guest posts
18. User proper blogging tools
19. Have a neat blog design/theme
20. Try getting as much backlinks as you can
21. Solve problems of other bloggers
22. Build a brand
23. Tag your images
24. Install Google Analytics and keep an eye on your stats
25. Try to write “Top 10″ list article and promote them through Digg dot com
26. Write pillar posts
27. Establish relations with other bloggers and your commentators
28. Use Yahoo Answers
29. Join Google Groups
30. Do not sign up on link trains
31. Follow search engine guidelines
32. Start contests on your blog
33. Link exchange with other bloggers
34. Use Feedburner and enable Email Subscription
35. Place social networking icons in your blog
36. Create videos of tutorials and upload it on YouTube (do not forget to add watermark on your videos)
37. Take interviews of big bloggers
38. Write e-books and promote them via DigitalPoint and through your own blog
39. Use good permalink URL structure for your blog
40. If your blog is young, do not place any kind of ads on it
41. Install forums on your blog
42. Start polls on your blog
43. Learn web designing, and design some WordPress or Blogger templates (you will huge backlinks and a good traffic)
44. Use Facebook
45. Share your secrets ( to get traffic always share your secrets)
46. Join Blog Camps
47. Write as much “How To” articles as you can (how to articles get huge traffic from search engines)
48. Write “series posts” like HTML training series, SEO training series etc.
49. Try to get at least 3 Google Page Rank
50. Create a contact page
51. Show yourself as an expert
52. Research before writing
53. List your best articles in the sidebar
54. Create monthly roundups
55. Create weekly roundups (if you write 15-20 articles in a week)
56. Create controversies
57. Always write about latest news with proper post title and proper use of meta tags (you will surely get traffic from search engines)
58. Use Flickr
59. Write your best content on weekends
60. Always give credit of your source
61. Be deep not broad
62. Try writing on few topics (do not have a huge list of categories in your blog)
63. Visit, to be visited (means : read other blogs)
64. Have a good blog typography
65. Respect your visitors : They are your guests
66. Put your blog link in social networking websites
67. Create list of mails, and mail them your best articles each week
68. Gain Google trust
69. Buy hosting from good company like Hostgator
70. Learn more about your blog niche

         Ok readers end I think you have got some basic tips and ideas to start a blog with good traffic