In order to attract more visitors, you can employ some of the tips below to drive more traffic to your blog. You may choose to employ some of these tips or all of them but for best results, you have to test and track which tip or tips work best for your blog.

Article marketing
Articles are very useful in driving targeted traffic to your blog. It is also a good way to establish yourself as an authority in your niche if you can provide articles that are well written and well research.

Comment on other blogs in your niche
Take stock of all the major blogs in your niche and follow them closely. Whenever possible, try to post intelligent and helpful comments whenever a post is publish. In this way, you can leverage on these high traffic blogs to attract more readers to your blog.

Guest blogging
Guest blogging is another good way to establish authority and drive traffic to your blog. Many bloggers especially those who have well established blogs are always on the lookout for more content to add on to their blogs. Contact them and offer to guest blog for them, most of them will not reject you if you are able to provide well written and informative content.

Join forums in your niche and participate
Forums are another great channel to get more visitors to your blog. Join and participate actively in well established forums in your niche. You can add a link back to your blog in your signature and profile and if you are well regard in these forums, you will find a lot of targeted traffic coming your way through your postings.

Offline promotion
Besides promoting your blog online, you can also take your blog promotion offline. For example, you can add in your blog URL to your business cards and whenever you distribute them, it is another channel to get more visitors to your blog.

Optimize your blog for the search engines
Learn how to optimize your blog properly for the search engines. You need to understand and learn about on page and off factors which can directly affect your rankings in the search engines. It pays to master some basic SEO skills.

Proactive in networking with fellow bloggers
Build rapport and long term relationships with fellow bloggers in your niche.

Quality Content
Nothing beats quality content when it comes to getting more traffic. Provide more useful and quality content to your visitors and you will find them coming back for more.

Reply to comments
Whenever you receive any comments that are not consider spam, make sure you reply back. Nothing hurts a blog more than having a unresponsive blog owner who do not reply to their readers’ comments.

Submit your blog to blog directories, site directories, RSS feed directories and search engines
Submitting your blogs to these directories and search engines will get the search engines to crawl, index and list your blog quicker and at the same time give you some decent traffic and build some backlinks back to your blog.

Tag your posts
Tags are very useful in getting your blog notice by the search engines. It is also a good way for your site visitors to find your blog easily especially in blog search engines such as Technorati where readers perform searches on blogs based on tags.

While there are many ways to attract visitors and boost your blog’s traffic levels, getting them to return is an entirely different matter. This is something you have to work on if you have trouble getting repeated visitors back to your blog. Other than that, the tips listed above are good ways to drive more traffic to your blog.