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So anyone have any tips and tricks to increase traffic?

It has been an uphill battle trying to get traffic pulled in since the start.

I am getting about 1500 uniques a day, but would love to push that up. My google traffic seem way lower than I expected, although I attribute a lot of that to poor seo in the beginning of things.

Any thoughts?

You mentioned poor SEO early on - I suffered from the same problem. I made it a weekend project to go back through my first 100 posts or so and retitle them (just the title, not the permalink/URL structure) with optimized titles. Since doing that I've seen some increased SE traffic on older posts that didn't rank very high previously.

A few other ideas:

+ Comment on 15-20 blogs in your niche per day
+ Participate in two or three blog carnivals per week. If there are no hosts in your niche, consider volunteering to host, or look for closely related niches with a good fit from your recent archives.
+ Participate in forums and include a link to your blog. Check - nicely done here at Frugal Dad Forums. Join a couple others to increase interest.
+ Ask to guest host on larger blogs in your niche (but not THE largest blogs - some of them are more selective about who they accept posts from. I don't reject guest posts if the writer is good...I don't care how big or small their blog is).

Help me out here guys...more tips for increasing blog traffic?

Join some blog aggregators. A lot of my traffic comes from pfblogs.org. Jason is right about posting comments on other blogs in your niche. Making just one solid reply to a topic can net your site a lot of traffic. I've also found that bringing traffic to my site is the most difficult aspect of creating a blog, though I am gaining ground slowly. 1500 unique hits a day is pretty decent, I'd be excited to receive that kind of traffic.

I think most of it is just about writing quality articles and getting your name out there. That can take a while, the internet is huge...