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To get traffic, you first need to ensure your blog has regular, quality and unique posts that correspond to your audience. Your site and every individual post must be SEO optimised. Guest blogging is a good way to get both traffic and backlinks to your new blog.
I’ll try to avoid repetition of others’ excellent answers. I will assume that the blog itself has all what it needs to be found attractive/interesting once landed upon. Now, how can you generate (extra or new) traffic?
Be Relevant and Regular ;if you can take your readers to unique subjects its worthy!
Ensure quality and consistancy. Write on what interests your audience and
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1. First of all the blog itself needs to have quality content. Creative well written posts are a must.
2. Should have an attractive theme and layout. This has a major impact on visitors/viewers.
3. Add flashy but relevant embedded images/video media content
4. Depending on the nature of the blog it should be updated quite freqeuently and with the latest information.
5. Use your audience wisely to help share your blog with their aquaintences and spread the word. Nothing works better than word of mouth.
6. Contribute to other blogs and places where your target market (potential blog readers hang around) so they may get a chance to know you and you may get a chance to invite them to visit your blog.
7. Advertise your blog via social media means and digitally market it and try to benefit from search engines.
8. Allow others to make guest posts and improve your blog according to popular demand in light of their feedback.
9. Interaction with your audience is vital, take requests etc.
10. Organize events for example small give away's etc to keep the visitors re-visitng and keep track on your blog.
11. Advertise your blog wherever you possibly can according to your available resources.
First and foremost you should use the Ping on Wordpress to send a signal to search engines that you have new content, so they can crawl your blog.
Additionally I'd suggest you share it on social media like facebook, twitter, google+ etc...
There are also many more ways to get website traffic to your blog.