how to attract traffic to your web site?

Drawing people to your website or blog or hub has always been a challenge to everybody. This question will be asked in every forum and in social networking sites every now and then even though the topic has been discussed enough. There are few classic steps which can followed to make yourselves noticable and there are some which will change and will not work as time passes. I am going to list down some 20 important steps that will stand out for ever and will always give you targetted traffic.

1. Writting Quality Content - Content is King. Donot get PLR articles. Write quality contents that makes people to come back.
2. Build your brand with catchy logos and captions.Having a nice design that makes your quality content explored and navigated easily. Look into some nice web design steps.
3. Create RSS feeds for visitors to subscribe
4. Optimise your site for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation )
5. Use appropriate targetted keywords in your articles but donot stuff keywords. Dont stuff your page with keywords and ads.
6. Write articles and submit it in Article sites and directories.
7. Participate in forums like digitalpoint, Sitepoint Forums, Yahoo Answers etc. Always include your website or blog in your signature in the forums.
8. Participate in social networking sites like mybloglog, blogcatalog, Orkut, Facebook, MySpace and create your own network.
9. Try to read other quality websites or blogs from your niche and try to leave some quality comments and suggestions. Donot spam.
10. Keep your website or blog fresh and write fresh articles every now and then.
11. Write something interesting in your blog and if you are really good you can make it controversial.
12. Spread the word to your friends by email or by word of mouth.
13. Include your website or blog link in your email as signatures, in your facebook, myspace and orkut profiles.
14. Offer some free stuffs to your readers.
15. Donot involve in Link building sites and Donot buy links.
16. Submit your blog or website to some good directories.
17. Donot publicise your blog until you have got enough quality contents to show case.
18. Try to build relationship with websites or blogs of your niche. Include nice sites of your niche in your blogroll.
19. Try to conduct some interesting polls.
20. Write interesting articles about hot topics. Check Google trends to know about current hot topic.

Hope this helps.