Bring more traffic to your web site: 20 steps to do it

• Leave comments on articles and blogs that are related to your niche and have a good rank. This will help you to get a backlink to your web site, which may entice the visitors to these places come to your web page.
• Write original articles and submit to article submission directories.  
• Post in forums and put your site’s URL in your signature.
• Use answers.yahoo.com to reply to people’s queries and get yourself (and your site) known. 
• Submit a press release to various press release submission sites like PRWeb etc.
• Use CraigsList.com to advertise your website in the appropriate category.
• Submit your web site to the key search engines manually.
• Submit your web site to directories manually. Remember to select the most appropriate category for this.
• Try to optimize each of your web page for a particular search phrase or keyword.
• In your email signature, put a link to your web site. This is a free and easy way to drive more traffic to your site.
• If you have a blog, add an RSS feed to it.
• Add favorite icons like that of Digg, Reditt, Del.icio.us etc in your web pages so that viewers can easily bookmark your site.
• Create a custom 404 error page for your web site that will redirect people to your home page.
• Participate in a link exchange program with authority sites.
• Post your site’s information on social networking and bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, MySpace etc.
• Create a promotional video about your online business and post it on YouTube.
• Start your own newsletter or ezine.
• Offer some freebies (like a software program, ebook, e-course or report) to create a buzz in the online world and make people come back to your site.
• Social networking will help promote your web site. In seminars or other live events, talk to people and take the opportunity to tell about your online business.
• Explore some non-competing sites having a similar functional area as that of yours to get referrals from them.