SEOmoz published an article which discusses the best way to generate traffic to your blog. There are a ton of points in the article which I agree and disagree with on a personal basis.

Here are some of the points (in bolded) which I am talking about taken straight from their article:

Choose the Right Blog Software (or Custom Build)

Yeah choosing a Blog Software is probably the most important aspect in the future of your blog! Custom building your software is the best choice, but the most expensive and time consuming part. We are using WordPress, but a ton of people say that Drupal and Blogger seems to be a good choice as well!

A good example of a blog which made their custom-made blogging software, is BlogSmith (a software provided by Weblogs for sites in their network like Engadget).

Host Your Blog Directly on Your Domain

Well this is always the best way to bring up a blog because more people will remember the domain name and creates loyal visitors. You can always get web hosting via PayPal for such a low price at Sixty6 Hosting. However, if you do not have the correct income to purchase a domain name, you can always use these free sub-domain hosted blogging services:

• 66 Blogs (Lets users choose from over 200 pre-loaded themes and is powered by WordPress)
• Blogger (Has a few themes and lets you register with Google AdSense and display AdSense and is powered by Blogger Software)

Participate at Related Forums & Blogs

Definitely a good strategy to help build up some organic links and get people to know about your blog. If you want to know which blogs and forums we’re active in, take a look at our sidebar! Some forums offer an option which lets you put in your blog feed and when you post, your latest blog title is displayed!

Tag Your Content

Definitely a good way to get visitors. We use Technorati (displayed on our sidebar home page linking to our author profile).

You can also use services like:

• Blogmarks
• Digg
• Del.ico.us Tags
• Reddit
• Stumbleupon

In addition to that, we offer a ton of subscription feeds on a lot of services on our sidebar. This is definitely a good way to get loyal readers to your blog.

Definitely use to FeedBurner to get subscribers! We signed up a few days ago and seem to have a few people who actually subscribed to the feed!

If you want our chicklets on the sidebar, go ahead and visit Chicklet Creator (they have a nifty plugin for WordPress as well!).

Check out our post on places to ping for a list of places to ping!

Launch Without Comments (and Add Them Later)

This is such a great idea for new blogs, I might even think about doing it to Modern SEO News soon!

Invite Guest Bloggers

Now this is a bit hard to do. You definitely can’t get Greg Boser, Todd Friesen or Jeremy Shoemaker to post on your site just for the heck of it. Doubt they would do it unless you had an extremely hefty fee to offer (maybe a couple good thousand per post).

Archive Effectively

Always an important aspect for SEO. Personally we use the following permalink for our posts and started making posts only in one archive (two at the most):

/%category%/%postname%

There are more points included with the article, we suggest you read it for more detailed information!