there are alot of things you can do to get traffic build back links is most important step to take now days you need backlinks for a reason the more back links u have around more sites and people will see your site/blog and how it will rank up in search engines

Just think using back links what it can do for your website are url even if you wanna promote your website are use it for ad-sense
you most also know about (SEO) search Engine Optimization is pretty much boosting your ranking and all to do with Google ranks and site content and be careful out there lot fakes saying they will give you tons traffic and etc but more are less are fake out for your money id stick with good old fashion www.Google.com and bing.com they are your friends and use keywords that are gonna help you and your website are blog make sure you have good content and structure if your gonna be using ad-sense make sure you have your ads setup right i use text ads only but you may use what ever fits you style best another thing to keep in mind is how many people Google and bing and yahoo and all rest searches for things make sure what you choose isn't topped out in Google searches like lets say i wanna do a blog on spiders as you can see if you type just spiders in the Google search bar About 61,600,000 results (0.11 seconds)  now lets try spider no S bout 436,000,000 results (0.12 seconds)the more pages there are harder it will be to rank on Google  you must have good content and info on your web page for it to be good here is a list of some urls people use boost there traffic
1.www.Google.com
2.www.bing.com
3.www.ask.com
4.www.yahoo.com
5.www.aol.com
6.www.mywebsearch.com
7.www.lycos.com
8.www.duckduckgo.com
9.wwwinfo.com etc u get the idea