Have you tried using Squidoo to hgelp with promoting your site. From what I understand you create what they call a lens, and you can basically sell yourself and your website to no end, with links to your site and blogs etc. It does seem very popular, but I do not have any first hand experience at it myself.

I think those tips are helpful but they're also repeated too much. The hard part with these tips is actually having the patience and time to write articles, create backlinks, and most importantly, having the money to purchase tools that can help you get traffic.