Besides search engines you should also target other websites to increase online traffic for our websites.Blogs, forums,social networking and content sharing websites are just some of the types of website that you can get involved in.
Blogs : By leaving informative and relevant comments with a signature link to your own site you can effectively increase new leads and interested customers.
Forums : By taking part in your industry related forums in commenting in a opened thread or creating a new thread can increase online traffic to your site. Generally forums allow to have signature. You can add a link to your site in the signature. If you can build strong reputation among the forums , visitors who will come to your site will easily convert to your customers.
Social Networking sites: Relationship marketing is considered one of the powerful marketing concepts that have been practiced well within businesses. Social bookmarking sites offer the same opportunity to build relationship among other networkers. By contributing quality content in sites like digg.com you can huge volumes of traffic .
Other other benefit is from the above sites that when you get a link you get a one way link. If the links are followed, certainly they will increase your sites link profiles… which will help your site achieve better search engine rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN & other major search engines.