Some ways to encourage traffic are:
- Give freebies away,
- Post useful content that people want to see
- Write a LOT, have contests
- Use tags/labels
- Put the link of your blog on your facebook
- Tell your facebook friends when you post a new blog
- Wait. Google specifically wants you to earn your way up the list
BONUS!
Labels are “searchable” terms. for example if I wanted to learn about eyeshadow, and you had a label for eyeshadow I would be able to find your blog better.
Ping.fm is a website that posts to all your sites (blog, facebook, linkedin, youtube, twitter etc.) at the same time. This is good for exposure as well.