People ask me every week how can I get lots of targeted traffic to my blog fast and here's my answer... getting traffic takes time, relentless work and perseverance. However these methods below are in fact proven ways to get traffic to your blog and you should focus all your energies on them.

Content

First and foremost… Create unique, useful and quality content for your blog…

SEO

Search engine optimization is the ultimate way to getting traffic to your blog. It’s a time consuming task that produces results slowly but worth every effort, as it can potentially drive tons of free traffic to your blog, doing effective SEO can account for almost 60 to 70 percent of the traffic to your blog.

Guest Posting

If you’re looking for targeted traffic and to increase the readership of your blog as well as benefit from SEO aspects, then get guest posting. Guest posting accounts for almost a third of the traffic to my blog… It can help you spread your expert authority in your chosen niche and earn the credibility you deserve.

Blog Commenting

Blog commenting has several major benefits; Building high quality backlinks, building relationships with other bloggers and increasing your readership and traffic. Unfortunately too many new bloggers come along and are somewhat clueless about how to leave practical and resourceful comments on other blogs. This is a unique opportunity to promote your blog so comment sensibly and resourcefully.

Community Building

Build a community of loyal followers, whether you do it here on Bloggers.com, Twitter or Facebook or any other social networking site.

Engaging on Forums

Chat forums are a great place to promote your blog. Use them to build an audience, build backlinks, and build relationships and traffic. Again use forums carefully and always abide by the rules.

These are my top 6 tips on traffic building for your blog, enjoy or feel free to share your own tips.