The first thing I do is submitting to adult porn list sites. Try to get your site listed on as many of them as possible. Then I start trading hardlinks which brings in smaller amounts of direct traffic and bigger amounts of SE traffic in the long run.
Additionally I’m checking other sites and try to figure out which trades send them the most traffic. Try to trade with those sites! You should already have some traffic when you do that step because otherwise nobody will trade with you
Furthermore you should get your surfers to share your blogs/sites via social networking sites.

If you have a bigger budget buy yourself some traffic from adwords, brokers or other sites. You can also buy some content, watermark it with your domain and get it listed on tubes for typeins.

Furthermore use twitter and other social services to spread your stuff.

I think if you do all that you should be doing good already.

I’ve also noticed a few things that make a big difference with Google…
1. A Google XML Sitemap with a link to it in the footer
2. Original text (goes without saying)
3. Heavy internal linking
4. Limiting Categories
5. Not calling Categories “Categories”
6. Recent posts in sidebar
7. Limiting links out from posts to 2 links per 300 words.

That last one is relatively new. But with the introduction of Google obliterating blogger blogs for “spammy” content and the theory that this relates to the number of links out in the posts, there is a real chance that Google are using the same process to judge all blogs. I had several blogger blogs, and all of those with sponsor links heavy in the posts were blocked, while those with only one or two in text heavy posts were not.

I believe this applies to text links and image links. So it’s worth considering. At the moment I write most of my own posts with 300 words and two links out, one text and one image. They are always crawled and getting Google traffic within three days at the most, then it’s a steady climb with regular posting.

Traffic will grow over time.
Whatever you do, do not buy any traffic from anyone, it’s junk and they are ripping you off – the only exception to this is if you were advertising, but then you need an existing site with great content to make that a viable option, especially for a blog.

Create a Twitter account and a Tumblr too. Every time you post share that content on those platforms with images that draw people in. Make those two accounts fun in their own right. Don’t just be the guy standing in the corner of the room with a megaphone screaming at people to come and buy stuff. Engage with other users, engage with performers you just featured, create content that is actually interesting and compelling rather than just trying to sell a membership to a site. The buyer knows the game and they have little interest in just being sold to.

I think that if you speak to any of the webmasters and program owners on this (or any other) board, they will all tell you that this industry is not “fast”.

It takes time to create quality content, to learn how to build marketing materials, to learn how to build traffic and to market content properly.

7 years ago, fast may have been possible, but in the time I have worked in this industry I have watched everything slow down dramatically.

I know WMs who spend 2 hours creating a blog post. Who constantly tweak and change their layouts, looking for that perfect mix.

The best advice anyone can give you is to slow down and really look at what you are doing. You’ll also have to learn a lot about SEO/SEM if you want to drive free traffic – without that knowledge your only recourse is paid.