Article submission, directory submission, forum posting, profile submission, social bookmarking and blog commenting are the best technique for generating back link to website, so that, websites PR can increase and number of visitors can come to websites fast.
According to me the best way for generating traffic is to focus on different SEO Off page techniques like
1.Web 2.0
2. Profile Creation
3.Sharing content through different social media
4.Classifieds
Here are some best and efficient ways to generate traffic:
On page SEO
Long tail keyword
Guest blogging
Content marketing
Build your Social media
Blog commenting
The effective ways to generate traffic:
Blog commenting
Forum commenting
Guest posting
Document submission
Video promotion
Infographic promotion
Classified promotion
Article submission
SEO can be the best way to generate traffic, techniques like blog commenting, blog promotion, forum commenting, social bookmarking, gueat posting, infography promotion, image posting, video promotion etc
You can follow SEO methods like social bookmarking, guest posting and social media sharing etc..... I think content writing and content sharing is best Technic to generate more traffic to your website.