Squidoo

Squidoo is a great way to send traffic to your blog. More and more bloggers and website owners are making lenses(their word for web page) for the purpose of driving traffic to their site. You can just simply make a quick web page about whatever your blog is about, and throw in a few links to your blog, your rss feed, and maybe a few post from your blog and you're in business. Also Google and other search engine love Squidoo lenses and rank them very high so you can receive a lot of traffic.
That's not the best part though. The best part is you can make money from it too. I'm talking a lot of money. There are bloggers (myself included) who have tried it just to send traffic to a blog, and had so much fun they made more lenses. As of this writing I am working on lens number 12. Some people make thousands of dollars with Squidoo. There are a ton of people who have quit their jobs, and focused just on building Squidoo lenses. They also have a referral program.
If you are wondering what a Squidoo lens looks like, here are a few of mine. Here's one to drive traffic to my blogs. And here are a couple that I made just to have fun, and make a little money. Who makes the best footballs and Best Basketball
Another great part of Squidoo is the great community. There are tons of people in the forum trying to help out each other and make it more fun. It really is the most fun I have ever had making money.
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Private Advertising

So many bloggers rely on Adsense for their earnings that they get discouraged and give up. Like I say all the time, Adsense will not pay as much as you think it will. Until you are getting like 10,000 hits a week Adsense is probably not worth getting your hopes up about.
Private advertising is definitely the way to go. You can offer text links for just $0.50 or a dollar a month when you are just starting out. If you can get 10-20 advertisers you are looking at $20 a month above what you are bringing in from Adsense. Once you are getting a lot of traffic you can charge a lot more. Like you could offer advertising for $10 a month, or a hundred dollars a year. Or if you have a spot for banners, find some other sites that may want to put those on your blog. You will find that this is by far the easiest way to make money when you are just starting out.
Where do you advertise your advertising space? I do it mostly at blog forums like Bloggeries or Bloggst. I will give you a list of blog forums to bring in traffic, and to bring in advertisers in a later post.

Free traffic sites

A lot of people want to boost their traffic just for the sake of saying they have more traffic. Maybe they want to sell advertising spots, and just need to say they have higher numbers than they really do. Or some people just want to be able to say they are getting a lot of traffic. Either way here are some great options to getting easy non-organic(people who weren't necessarily looking for you) traffic.
Traffic G is a free traffic exchange site that gives you around 1.1 visitors for every site you view. You just have to click on a site, wait 20 seconds, and click the right word. I would recommend doing it while you are doing something else, because it can get very boring. But it will give you the traffic it promises.
Free link exchange lets you advertise your blog on other blogs or sites by putting links on your own site. How many hits you get depends on how many times your links get clicked on.
Link Grand is a little different in that it lets you make money by putting links on your blog, and in turn use that to buy links. You can also just buy hits for just $5 for a thousand hits. I have done this a few times with some of my blogs. You can also make money with referrals.