Blogging these days has become a way to earn livelihood rather than just “out of interest” thing as it was earlier. We write posts, so that others will read, which will help them solve there problems or in any other way.
But we not only write, we also do many other things to get more traffic to our blog, which works for some and not at all for others. Even if your not doing anything fancy and you just keep writing unique and helpful content, eventually you will pick up some decent traffic, thanks to the search engines 
But if some basic techniques can get you more traffic early, then why not give it a try??
Here are three basic blog strategies which every blogger must do :-
1. Link Love:
The most basic thing, develope links to your blog. And the most effective strategy (according to me) is quality link exchange. What you need to do is search for blogs related to your genre (Google Blog Search) and leave a request for link exchange in their contact form or in comment. Just try to be reasonable while doing this, obviously PR4 will not like link exchange with a PR0-1.
Other thin g you can do for links is commenting which was not that useful for me.
2. Submit All Your Blogging To Web 2.0:
The way you get fast rankings that stay for certain keywords is by submitting them to sites that the search engines love…Web 2.0 sites.
This includes the bookmarking sites, status sites and all the social sites…
One problem though… We all don’t have time to go one by one and post to all of them…
So you use a tool called OnlyWire.com and submit it all at once. Just go there and set up all the accounts and then with just a push of a button you can submit your link, instantly giving you high rankings.
3. RSS Feeds
Include a RSS subscribe box at the bottom of your posts, this will encourage people to visit your site regularly.
If you are doing a good job with your posts most people will want to read more of your stuff. Just make sure what your offering them is quality content, that is important to them.
Just follow these 3 steps and you will definitely see a decent rise in your blog traffic.