1. The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web

2. Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors a month. Make sure your site is optimized for search engine traffic.

4. The more sites that link to you, the more sustainable traffic you build over time. Make sure you maximize the potential for referring traffic.

6. Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter and others are set up to help discover content on other sites and can be powerful sources for driving a significant amount of traffic.

8. Get other major sites to integrate some core functionality of your site into their own as a value add

10. On the web, Content is King. Find ways to integrate refreshing content into the pages people visit most on your site, and you’ve given them a reason to come back for more.

12. The viral loop is the process of turning users into marketers and thus exponentially increasing your traffic via your user base .

14. People come back to sites that solve a personal compelling need. Most of the time, we’re either thinking about Money, Health, or Love (or some derivative)

15. QUESTION: If you were the most popular site in your category, would it give someone a reason to come back to the site every day/every week?