Easy Steps to Drive Massive Traffic
First of all you will need a blog with some articles with compelling content. If you are serious in what you are doing and you want to drive quality traffic to your blog posts, you should ask yourself: "Am I highlighting my best content?", if you are not, people maybe will see you like one more, and not someone that could teach him something. You should choose the most informative and helpful content to promote, with this, you will not only drive traffic as well you will drive daily and committed readers to your blog, and bear in mind that the first impression is very crucial, whether someone stays or leaves your blog. Always prefer promoting blog posts than promoting your blog as a whole.
Social bookmarking - This is an ancient form of promoting your articles but it still work, just go to social marker and send your article to some, choose only the best here like Digg, StumbleUpon or Delicious, and maybe 2 or 3 with DoFollow links, if you send your article to all google probably will see you like a spammer that is trying to leverage the search engines ranking and then penalize you.
Newsletter - Having a newsletter on you blog it's a very good form of promoting your best content; send to your reader a weekly email with your best content.
Article marketing - Submit articles to go articles, Ezine Article, Squidoo, and link them to your blog post.
Advertising - If you have on your blog a fantastic article in your blog capable to drive attention or maybe gives you money through affiliate links, or gain twitter or Facebook followers, you may be willing to spend some money on advertising like Adwords or StumbleUpon advertising, if the return value could be greater.
Internal links - This is very powerful and you don't need to get out of your blog, just add some link to older posts when you are writing a new post, if you are doing social bookmarking or adverting in one post and then in that post you have links to other content in your blog, this could push up the post that you don't promote and also increase you page views, and additional benefits in SEO.
There are so many ways of promoting your articles just don't leave it for tomorrow does it now and start increasing your traffic.