1. Build community by helping people solve problems
2. Share solutions and information
3. Freely link to sites that are useful and related (not link exchange)
4. Search for pages/blogs with similar topics to your posts and communicate.
5. For .edu links, make educational pages
6. Promote others
Some examples of success:
These guys added me to a review of scheduling software because of my XML schedule page.
My page on fixing the quote tag in IE is linked to far and wide. I link out to competing solutions because they are good.
My little used html page gets a huge amount of traffic from colleges.
My page on the dojo tree widget ranks higher (in google) that the dojo site for "dojo tree". Why? their documentation sucked at the time. I solved my problem and documented so others could benefit. Result, my readers create links to the page.
I let a friend publish to my site to gain recognition. We wrote an article about using MyEclipse to build XUL apps. The folks at MyEclipse promoted the article and even sent a reference to it in their monthly newsletter.
The best way to get traffic is to create an environment where your visitors work for you. Communities share links and traffic to your site. You'll know when your referrer logs show a significant amount of traffic from email clients (a sign people are sharing links to your site).
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