Now a days thier are many ways to promote your Website. Knowing your target is very important in promoting your website.
What are the ways to increase your traffic?
1. You need a very interesting content and also update your content. Search engine loves to spider website that updates it's content.
2. Increase your content and number of pages. The pages will act as small gate way to your website.
3. Offer free or prizes for the visitors. This would make the visitor to advertise your website and make them return to your site.
4. Link exchange with other website. Better if you exchange with similar website.The most popular way to increase traffic.
5. Pay for one way links to your website. One way is better than exchange link. Search engine recognize the one way link as special.
6. Creating Articles and submit it to other website. It would also work as a one way Link.
7. Post your website to Classified Ads. Some are still free.
Don't also forget offline advertising cause it is still very important.
This are ways i used to increase my traffic. If you follow my steps then it would greatly help you and increase the traffic in your webiste.