How to generate the INITIAL traffic?

[Robert]

Sitemaps are exactly what they say they are -- a map of your site. You are telling the search engines what's all there and where to find it. It's much quicker to get them indexing your site. The plugin referenced above will rebuild the sitemap and ping the search engines every time you make an update, so they can come crawling on over to see what's new.

[JeremyMorgan]

As for social traffic such as digg, you gotta have interesting titles and content, then pray to the digg gods.

[evelester]

Originally Posted by JeremyMorgan

As for social traffic such as digg, you gotta have interesting titles and content, then pray to the digg gods.

I like that! So true too!

[tyler324]

Yes, getting alot of Diggs. This may seem daunting for a new blogger so you may want to try blogengage.com first. It is blogs only, and was created by a member here.

[Yukinari84]

forum posts, social bookmarking/media sites, and definitely blog comment posting.

[veikoh]

I wrote my first article on the hot topic that wasn't actually my blog objective but had keywords with high KEI inside. So it's still producing me lot of traffic since I published it. See Sky Broadband is robbing customers? « Veiko Herne – lifetime entrepreneur with adventurous soul

[RonaldSu]

From my own blogging experience, the two methods that will bring in the most initial traffic are commenting on other blogs and submitting your articles to social bookmark sites.

My blog was first being noticed by comments on Johnchow.com and Shoemoney.com. Make sure you write good comments that have a point.

When you know that you have written a good post, submit it to digg or stumble upon. For me, stumble upon brings more traffic than digg, but definitely try both.

[MarketLeverage]

Start commenting on similar blogs and participating in forums.
Add Entrecard and Stumbleupon, those two should generate a little traffic on their own.

[Bloggeries]

Originally Posted by MarketLeverage

Start commenting on similar blogs and participating in forums.
Add Entrecard and Stumbleupon, those two should generate a little traffic on their own.

I'd say entrecard is the best way to get going before the engines find ya!

[Bloggeries]

Originally Posted by erikko

i do one way linking techniques like directory submission and forum posting

Free or Paid Submissions?