Generating Traffic to your web site

Why do we want to bring traffic to your website? More traffic to your website mean more potential customer for your Internet Business.
Other than directing traffic to your site via Search engine, there are other ways to get traffic to your site.
There are:

• Article Directory/Marketing: You can subsmit article to Article Direcectory site. Of course, your article should have a byline with your name and a link to your website. This is where you can bring traffic to your site. Ezine owner or webmaster will come to the Article Direcectory site to look for reprintable material. If your article is of good value, it increase your chance of selection and also increase your target audiences coming to visit your site after reading your articles. Article is truely viral- it spread like a word of mouth in the traditional business concept. I have read from www.adam-khoo.com that his "I am gifted, so are you" book have been pirated in China. You would assume that he will be annoy. However, he see the "Big Picture" for the Adam Khoo Learning Technologies brand to penetrate in China through "Word of mouth" or in internet term "virus mkting". You can learn to write a professional Internet article here! one of the article directory sites are http://www.articlesbase.com/. You can find more of them simply by searching for "articles directory" at google search site.
• ezine paid advertisement. You can increase your taffic via ezine adverstisement. This type of advertisement is quite effective as it is focus on your targetted customers or "hungry fish" as described by Allen Robert in his book "Multiple streams of Internet Icomes". You can have solo, classified or sponsor ads. Of the three, solo adv is the most efficient and also the most expensive. Basically, it sents email to your targetted subscribers list of the ezine site to advertise your product and solution.
• Traffic Exchange. You can advertise your website URL in traffic exchanges sites. Your URL will be displayed in rotation to other members advertisement of the traffic exchange. Some of the traffic exchange site is www.instantbuzz.com and http://MyViralads.com/index.php?affiliate=10163. The later, Myviralads, have a very interesting and powerful concept where it generate an ads popup whenever visitors exit from the member websites.
• Blog and Forum. You can popopulate your blog site and link it to your web page so that it can help you to draw traffic to your home page. In the other mean, you can join a forums and contribute your knowlege, helping others and in the process direct them to your web site after gaining their trust and confidence.

If any of you have any other idea to increase your traffic, do drop me your comments. Thanks