To increase ranking...

Following are the tips to increase ranking

Keep your website design and navigation simple
Used a varied set of website promotion strategies to rank
Use logs and analytics software to understand where traffic comes from
Write and submit articles for your website or online magazines
Always optimize your website

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For increasing in rankings you must increase backlinks of your website. It will promote your website.

To increase your ranking you must increase your back links and content qaulity of your website.

You can get achieve good SERP through only blog commenting methods. Link building is the process of making backlinks of a website. Link plays important role in website promotion . In link building you have to work on every link building methods like forum posting, blog commenting, directory submission, social bookmarking. You need to make quality work on all these methods for gaining good SERP.

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For increasing traffic for a blog you can use Directory submission ,Article submission, social Bookmarking, use Social networking sites etc.

Only blog commenting does not gonna work.You have to go for diversification and try to get those links through some tasks like forum posting,article marketing etc.