how do i increase website traffic?

Can anyone please give suggestions on how to increase traffic to your particular website? I know you can do something with yahoo that has a pay-per-click kinda thing. I was hoping there may be some more suggestions out there?

The only way to increase traffic is by having some sort of original content on your site that is updated regularly and people find amusing, interesting etc.

you can then go about spreading links to friends and forums etc to get people to regularly visit your site for updates,

other than advertising on other sites or forums there isnt really any other way of increasing the traffic to your site.