Many people use their blogs as a fun way to make a little extra money.
If this is you, you will not want to be spending money to drive traffic to your website.
One of the best ways to get free traffic to your site is to offer something that everyone wants, or to do some task for people to save them time and money.
A great service to offer your readers is a review of something.
If you are interested in blogging, why not offer a review of quality blog sites for your readers? Google loves review sites so you will rank well.
You are offering to save your readers time by checking out the best sites.
You also get your site mentioned on these sites if you have the trackback feature of WordPress turned on.
This is great free publicity for your site as all the readers of the quality blogs will see your site's address.
There is some debate over whether to turn on no-follow, because Google doesn't like them, or to leave them on, because the amount of traffic you get as a quality site cancels out any drawbacks.
You could try testing this, if you're interested in the subject.
You could let everyone know your findings and get even more free traffic for your site.
As you have a blog, it is a good start to review blog sites.
You should stick to the theme of your blog.
For example if your blog were about gardening, you would review gardening blogs.
It is a good idea to be honest but if you can't say anything good about a blog, it is probably better not to include it at all, rather than to write a negative review.
After all, you are recommending good sites or your readers.
Make sure you send a copy of your review to the blog owner.
If you are honest about their site, they will often put a free link in one of their articles, back to your site.
After you have investigated all the best blog sites, you could possibly go on to review books, websites or movies related to your topic.
A review of other blogs, websites or any information, related to your topic of interest is an excellent way of getting lots of free traffic and boosting your ranking in the search engines.
It also helps others to find good quality sites, so they will come to see you as the expert in your field, and it costs you nothing.