How do I generate traffic to my blog?

I just got a comment from ksawme.blogspot.com to write a blog on how to generate traffic to blogs… I replied him saying that there are lots of blogs/articles which you can find when googled…  Then after some thought I thought I can share things I do to generate traffic to my blog…

Signatures: This is simple thing which we can do but this is very powerful method which can get some publicity to your blog…

• Add your signature in your email…
• See to it that you just don’t read and come our from reading other blogs… If you like it post some comment with your blog url as signature…
• Participate on more forum discussion and do remember to add your signature…

Social Media: This is one powerful medium that generated 70% of my traffic, believe me doing this is very simple… Some of social media initiatives I do to publicize my blog…

Twitter: Twitter’s micro blogging is getting more famous now-a-days… See to it that you stay active in twitter and get more followers… You can subscribe to twitterfeed to get your new blog entry twitted once you write a new blog…

Stunbleupon: See to it that you immediately add your new blog entry gets stumbled…

Friendfeed: You can add feeds of almost all your social media to friendfeed… This helps people to see all your social media activities in one place… Blog is one such thing you can add it to your friendfeed…

Google Friend connects: This is new initiative and it has to mature a lot… But after using friend connect I’m getting decent hits from fiend connects…

Also try to publicize your blog thru as much as social media initiatives…

Print stickers: Get some stickers “Blogging @ Yourblogname.com” and stick in your bike, car, workplace, home and where ever possible… Also if you have good friends request them get your stickers pasted in their car or bike…

Print in t-shirt: Also you can design the same sticker content and get it printed in a t-shirt and see to it that you wear the t-shirt often :)… If possible try to give some t-shirts to your friends… After all people love freebies and they help you to publicize your blog…

Search Engine Optimization: Try to optimize the blog to be search engine friendly like

• Adding relevant url alies
• Adding meta details

Blogroll: Try to add your blog to as many blog rolls as possible…

More importantly see to it that you write unique content and moreover most of your blogs are interesting to read and informative for readers… See to it that your blog feed is used by others in their website which can also get you lots of traffic…

Pls share your experience in promoting your blog by posting your comments so that it will be helping others…