77 Ways to get traffic By Allan Gardyne

Traffic tip #42
Offer to be a columnist.
Locate a popular site in your niche which would appreciate having you as a
regular columnist. Write tips, lively commentary, product reviews, or
whatever topics suit your niche.
Traffic tip #43
Offer to moderate a section of a forum.
A forum which is growing fast may appreciate an offer from you to moderate
a section of the forum, in return for free publicity for your site.
Traffic tip #44
Do something funny.
Put zany, funny stuff on your site and ask a friend to submit a link to it to
BoingBoing.net to get the publicity ball rolling.
If possible, try to make sure the topic of the article is related to the topic of
your niche. Remember that you want TARGETED traffic to your site.
Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing.net blog says the blog gets 1.7 million visitors
a day.
(Source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/05/01/1146335641312.html).
Reporting a link to BoingBoing is very simple.
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