I was just rereading Seth Godin's The Nine Free Things Every Site (Or Lens!) Should Do, which is the link SquidU's Answer Deck gives you if you click "How do I get more traffic?"
As usual, Seth is simple and short, whereas my own 3-part Squidoo tips tutorial on how to build web traffic is in-depth and too long.
One of Seth's points jumped out at me:
You have no right to traffic. If you're lucky, and GOOD, you earn some.
You'll earn it when you do something daring, interesting, useful, provocative, free, compelling, emotional or urgent.
Hurry.
I've said this in other ways, but never quite so bluntly: YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO [WEB] TRAFFIC.
There are millions of fascinating, useful, incredible, wonderful, exactly-what-people-want web pages out there. A web user will never see more than a tiny fraction of them. So why should anyone pick your page, out of all those pages, to visit? Why stay there? Why read it?
It's up to you to make it worth their time.
