Here is the first way that of getting more traffic to your website that I will discuss today.

You can get traffic to your website by using a blog. There are different ways you can use a blog to get traffic to your website. You can:

1) Put a blog on your own site.

Benefits: The blog is on your site where you can control the blog, and can see specific statistics on your blog traffic.
Drawbacks: You have to know some sort of programming in order to install blog software on your site, and you are responsible for it's upkeep if your site goes down, or someone hacks into your site.

2) Use any one of a number of blogging services.

Benefits: You now have another site which can link back to your site increasing your link popularity. You also don't have to worry about installing software or keeping up with it on your own website. You can also sometimes pick up traffic from other blogs hosted at the blogging service.
Drawbacks: You don't have control over the software. You don't have access to specific statistics on your site.

Whichever way you decide to use, you want to make sure that you point back to a page on your own website from within the blog post. This will help to get your site indexed in the search engines. You also will want to promote your blog to many blog listing services. This will help you to get more exposure and traffic to your blog.

You will also want to add tags to your blog post from different tagging and social bookmarking services that will also promote your blog to more places on the web.

Stay tuned for the next installment....