Here are few awesome Tricks and tips to increase blog traffic with SEO.

# Leave comments on articles and blogs that are related to your niche and have a good rank. This will help you to get a backlink to your web site, which may entice the visitors to these places come to your web page.

# Write original articles and submit to article submission directories.

# Post in forums and put your site’s URL in your signature.

# Use answers.yahoo.com to reply to people’s queries and get yourself (and your site) known.

# Submit a press release to various press release submission sites like PR Web etc.

# Use CraigsList.com to advertise your website in the appropriate category.

# Submit your web site to the key search engines manually.

# Submit your web site to directories manually. Remember to select the most appropriate category for this.

# Try to optimize each of your web page for a particular search phrase or keyword.

# In your email signature, put a link to your web site. This is a free and easy way to drive more traffic to your site.

# If you have a blog, add an RSS feed to it.

# Add favorite icons like that of Digg, Reditt, Del.icio.us etc in your web pages so that viewers can easily bookmark your site.

# Create a custom 404 error page for your web site that will redirect people to your home page.

# Participate in a link exchange program with authority sites.

# Post your site’s information on social networking and bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, MySpace etc.

# Create a promotional video about your online business and post it on YouTube.

# Start your own newsletter or ezine.

# Offer some freebies (like a software program, ebook, e-course or report) to create a buzz in the online world and make people come back to your site.

# Social networking will help promote your web site. In seminars or other live events, talk to people and take the opportunity to tell about your online business.

# Explore some non-competing sites having a similar functional area as that of yours to get referrals from them.

Here is the list of few best Wordpress plugins which will help webmasters to improve there ranking in Google, and such other search engines. All plugins are free and supported by there developers with very frequent updates according to needs.

1-All in One SEO Pack

Automatically optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

2-Platinum SEO Pack

Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your Wordpress blog.Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the functionalities of All In One SEO

3-Redirection

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.

4-HeadSpace2 SEO

Controls almost every aspect of your site’s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. The best WordPress SEO solution!

5-Advanced Permalinks

Allows multiple permalink structures and category-specific permalinks without needing redirects.

6-AskApache Google 404

Displays unbeatable information to site visitors arriving at a non-existant page (from a bad link). Major SEO with Google AJAX, Google 404 Helpe

7-SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/xHTML

8-SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

9-Permalink Redirect

Redirects all crap away from the end of the URL.

10-SEO Title Tag

Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Mass edit the title tags of posts, pages, category pages, tag pages – indeed, any URL!

11-Robots Meta

This plugin makes it easy to add the appropriate meta robots tags to your pages, disable unused archives, nofollow unnecessary links as well

12-Another Wordpress Meta Plugin

Add META tags like keywords and descriptions to your posts and pages.

13-KB Robots.txt

Edit your robots.txt from within Wordpress to control search engine activities.

14-Optimal Title

Optimal Title mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before.

Many of the webmasters are waiting for next Pagerank update, but do you know , Pagerank update is Going on , Currently Google is not updating whole lot of sites Pagerank , instead they are doing it part by part

I just seen many sites , whos Pagerank is increased and even sites with Decreased Pagerank.
One of my Friend Abhishek’s Techblog TekAbhi loose its pagerank 4 and got Pagerank 2 , thats really sad news but similarly many other blogs are getting decent pagerank. Even few of my blogs are waiting for PR Update on there side.
Few other blogs like www.brainiak.wordpress.com got the PR 3 . and there are many other blogs which are getting decent PR in this Update.
There are many threads running on many Webmasters Forums about next Google pagerank , but yes this is the time, Google Pagerank is in progress.
So just wait for your Blogs or Websites Turn. Google is coming to check your strength !!

Google is again going to organize Webmaster Chat tonight at: 2:30AM – India Standard Time (GMT +05:30, Bombay) !! If you want to join then you have to register in advance from here.

You can catch some famous Googler out there .. Matt Cutts will be available to answer the questions at Q&A Session, JohnMu will give a presentation over personalization.

However it will be late night over here and i have to go for work tomorrow … but i will try my best to be there … Hope to catch u guys over there in that chat session ..