My USA travel website today crossed 1,00,000 pageviews (per month) with around 2000 visitors per day. Now this was a fairly new site for me, I started work on the domain in just Nov last year and by Dec, I had 220 visitors coming daily to the website.
This is what I did to get more visitors in just 5 months:
1. In early January, I decided to work on the content. I took to writing and adding new content to the site on a daily basis.
2. For new content, I used wikipedia and 3-4 other sites on that topic. Then re-wrote all in my own words and created unique articles.
3. I reorganized the website structure to be more simple, no more folder inside a folder inside a folder thing. Checked a few other sites who were my direct competition and followed their link structure.
4. Submitted to digg and other sites very often. I got a lot of diggs for my article on 26th January, India’s Republic day. I think that made google notice my site.
5. Slowly my traffic rose, I started coming up on first page for different keywords and by March I had 800 daily visitors.
6. I have continued the same concept of adding new, genuine contents in. Now I have over 2000 pages on the site and traffic has reached to 1800 visitors per day.