How to get traffic to your blog

Blogs need traffic – that is the genuine fact of the internet world. Without traffic, blogs would end up at the underbelly of the vast ocean that is the Internet and even the blog owner would lose interest after a while.  Every day, there are countless blogs that either shut down or languish because there is not traffic. If you are a webmaster and are wondering how to get traffic to your blogs, read these important tips:
Write on Article Marketing Sites: If you do not have a budget to sign up with a contextual ad service, work some more and write articles related to your blog niche at article marketing sites. These sites allow you to add a resource box at the end of the article. This is by far the cheapest – if you are writing yourself – and fastest way to get traffic to your blog if you do not intend to invest time and money in search engine optimizing.
Guest Write on other Blogs: There are several blogs on a niche, and most of them allow guest posts.  You could approach blogs that are popular – you can do that by checking their pagerank – for guest writing opportunities, and add a link to your blog at the end of the resource box.  Of course, you need to write a good, relevant article so that people read it and are intrigued enough to know more about or your blog.  Alternately, you can also invite other well known personalities to guest write on your blog, so that people come to read them. Your blog should have something more than  the personality’s post to keep it going though.
Banner Exchange: Blind exchange programs are not liked by search engines and they might ban your blog. But what you can do is to exchange banners and links with web masters whom you know. This way, you will not only get some graphic on your site, but will also pave the way to get relevant traffic to your site.