I have a blog in the competitive niche of internet marketing, the blog is 6 months old and when I started, I was using spun content. I have never really had high numbers of visitors but in the beginning they were around 20 -30 but the bounce rate was in 65%- 75%.
After chatting with my mentor, I changed tactic and wrote my own articles, visitor numbers dropped dramatically but so did bounce rate to around 25% with 5 - 10 average visitors per day (and that is a good day).
In an effort to increase traffic, I post to the following social media platforms - Facebook,Twitter,Google+,Pinterest,App.Net,Blogger ,Delicious,Diigo,FriendFeed,Instapaper,LinkedIn,Li veJournal,Scoop.It,Stumbleupon,Tumblr,Plurk,Kippt, Scoop.It,SETT.
I also manually submit to Hubpages,Ezinesarticle,Reddit & Articlebase and schedule content from Klout for Facebook,Twitter,Google+,Pinterest.
Recently I have been active on forums, but nothing seems to be increasing traffic volumes.
I do not focus on particular keywords or phrases per say but I do use Yoast SEO to optimise the page content. Any suggestions (clean ones please) would be gratefully accepted.
site is clivehooper dot com
Regards
Clive