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The methods I have used to get more traffic to my sites are:

Search Engine Marketing - this is where you write as much unique content yourself to target various keywords or keyword phrases. You can do some research on the keywords that fit your website theme, and then see how many sites are in the database of the search engines - this will give you a clue as to which keyword phrases to target

Blogs - I use several blogs I maintain on the blogger.com network. I use a slightly different technique of what I call keyword blogs. I basically research various keywords and call my blog by a general keyword and then write lots of unique content on different keyword phrases related to my general keyword. When using blogs you can change the format slightly so that each post is on a different page, and that you link all the blogs together, and place links to your site on the blogs etc. You can go to your sites and put direct links to your blog posts

Link Exchanges - I seek out sites with similar content to my own that are listed high in the search results, I then exchange links with them. This has pushed my site higher up the rankings - but it is a slow process

RSS Feeds - I use various bits of software/scripts which "draw-in" content from other RSS feeds around the internet. This automatically adds content to my sites and gets the search engines to come back more often to my sites

Hope thats a few ideas that will help you