Also Google never consider backlinks which you get from LinkFarm websites or any link building softwares. In fact there are chances that your blog might get banned from Google.
Directories like ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com are a good place to start. Do your research on your keywords. Optimize your articles for those keywords but don't have them used more than 2% of the time, or most directories will reject them.
Three things one has to concentrate to gain traffic through search engine optimization. First is relevant and quality content on a particular keyword usually related to the product/services. Second is link building, link exchange and reciprocal linking so more sites will be pointing to your site as reference. Last one is social media participation.
Verify the results, and do more submissions for competitive keywords. Time is important, the longer your blog is live, the more Google thinks it's a good site. Don't expect it to happen overnight, work regularly on building up your blog and its backlinks, checking your keyword relevancy/density and tweaking it.
Create unique content, then submit it to the major social bookmarking and link sharing services. Social bookmarking has the great ability to reach where search engines cannot.
I'm superstitious about some of the things. I have heard that if you put your shirt on backwards it means you are going to have a bad day. I make sure I put it one correctly.
It depends. If you site is new on the block, I'd look at using StumbleUpon to promote it as you can get good traffic from it quite easily. On the other hand there are sites like Digg which can get you both traffic and visibility.
I use Firefox plugin, this addon will highlight links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status. It's pretty easy & simple and I never had a problem with it.
You could try using VNC. Well you could try something radical. Keep in mind it's much more simple to get a monitor, but you can give this a shot anyway.
Getting traffic is a combination of a lot of things. The key to success is to create great content that visitors want to use, search engines will love and other websites will naturally link to.
