How do I drive more traffic to my website?

Do SEO, PPC, paid advertisment, classifieds for your site.

That happens a lot on every forum I am a member of. People with just a few posts and we will probably never see him/her again here haha.

Pointless threads. They can search other threads to get answers.

The answers are usually all the same.

Ya!
At least people that post a reply will visit the site.

Completely agree. not gonna waste my time helping, there is always more than enough on here or anywhere else to search from.

Good luck on your search, if there really was one.

However you are still required to do a little effort in the ON-page SEO. At least to help make a conversion from that paid traffic.

That is a very broad question. Do some on page optimization for the keywords you want to hit first. I'd say, research the keywords, look at the competition, and figure out what you want to go after. Do some off page-link building, write some quality articles, etc.

Here are my best ways to get new visitors/customers/sales:
1. Direct email, either to my list or through Solo Ads (very effective).
2. Sell something on eBay, since eBay does not allow digital products this does mean fulfillment and shipping, but this is my most successful way to get new customers to my list
3. JV Giveaways. I sign up for every JV Giveaway event I can find (getting on lists makes this easy). I always go for just the 1 free gift so I am not spending anything on this. I usually get 2-3 sign-ups per giveaway. This is of course slow, but at no cost it does bring in about 1000 new sign-ups per year for only about 5 minutes of work each morning.
4. Bing, I get pretty good results from Bing at a cost that is much lower than Google. But still pricy per sign-up, I end up paying about $4 per lead on Bing, but at least the numbers are predicable.
5. My own web site at howtogurus.com. Most of the traffic to howtogurus gets there from links in Articles I have written. But I do get a fair amount of traffic based on SEO work I have done. To be honest it takes years to build up good traffic based solely on SEO. Articles are faster, but not as effective now-a-days after Panda.

What hasn't worked for me:
1. Facebook, way too expensive to advertise. Likes and friends just don't convert to sales.
2. Google. Too expensive for my product line. My products average about $25. I used to use Google very effectively years ago when I was web master for a fine watch company, but then their average product price was well over $1000. In that price range Google works great. I could probably make it work for products above $200.
3. Twitter, useless. Fun, but useless. I get new followers every week, but I have yet to confirm one sale driven by Twitter.
4. Amazon. I sell a lot on Amazon, but since Amazon keeps the customer list I can't resell to those customers. Great venue for selling, useless for followup sales.
5. Classifieds. I have tested this several times over the years with no success.
6. Exact Seek. I get a few sign-ups this way and for the cost I guess it works, but the volume is just not there.
7. I run several blogs in different niches. Lots of fun, lots of visitors, but few sales. But then my blogs are mostly hobby stuff so not really appropriate for good sales anyway. Blogs could work great if you have the right offering.

Life has become a lot trickier in the last few months with all the changes Google made.

To drive traffic falls into two categories, free and paid. The safest bets for free traffic are:

1. Posts and guest posting, be careful about using your sites name and not a backlink;
2. Podcast;
3. Videos; and
4. Becoming an active member in respected forums.

Paid traffic is easier:

1. Build a list;
2. Buy the use of a list; and
3. Buy traffic.

I would not classify any of these 3 to be cheap. Buying advertising is not on the list because it is not cheap, you should have a bucket or two of money to throw out the window, if you don't know how to interpret the traffic you get.

Good Luck,
Wayne