Every single blog needs traffic, for the sales, PPC——money. Let's put some exception for those who take blogging as hobby, or a place for them to express themselves. However, mostly, monetized blogs need traffic in order to get money. Though generating traffic is not a-day task, you can slowly work on it. It is as though a long term invest.

Traffic

SEO

There are a lot of ways to get dense-traffic. i.e. SEO. However, SEO is a lifetime task. This is neither thing you can get within a minute nor a second. Put it in this way, it's like planting. You decide planting a tree from a scratch——a seed, and you have to water and provide mineral from time to time. If you stop, it might eventually stop growing, to the extent, wilt. So, it applies to SEO. If you stop updating regularly, for one day, you might be overcome by the others and step atop you.

Quality Contents

Content is king, this is an undeniable fact. And, contents are something important to SEO. Optimizing your keywords well in the contents is utterly helpful in getting you higher rank. The major search engines love dense-keywords content, provided that it is not exaggerate until being considered as spam. You may see the post about keywords density.

Bing and Google are picky on what they expected from a blog or a site. Don't worry! There is something you can do. Just stay focused on what you are writing, relates the keywords to the title and the theme of your site, don't get out of your theme.

Backlinks

Backlinks are something you should concern of. You can get instant traffic via backlinks. However, as long as the quality of the backlinks is concerned, then you should consider the relevancy of the site to your site. Put it in a nutshell, the backlinks came from a site, where their theme are similar to yours then the backlinks are considered as a quality one. Don't forget, PR is also an important criteria to rate the quality of the backlinks. High page rank of the site, regardless of its relevancy, it should be also considered as a good backlinks. You may see on how to generate backlinks.

Maintenance of your site

New! New! New! Everyone loves new things, fresh ideas, and so are the search engines! Search engines like sites which always update their contents. And, design of your site should be constantly change as to catch attention. Don't always use the same template and make no changes, in long-term, your readers may feel bored of your design and get out of your site instead of staying for further reading.