How to improve referral traffic to my site?

I think you should move towards social media and social network. This is a good and quick way to generate traffic.

I am also agree with your Opinion..SEO off page Optimization is one of the most effective way to get more traffic.By this way..
*Forum Posting
*Blogging
*Social Bookmarking
*Article Posting

Yes Social Bookmarking and Social media are the best platform to expose your product to the niche,They can being targeted people on your website and hence you enhance your referral traffic.

I think you should used the SEO off page Optimization Technique.

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start reciprocal and 3 way linking with related niche blogs and website.

If you are looking for relevant traffic then you should go for relevant forum but you need to be genuine and reply on specific threads only. Create a strong profile over there

Following things will help you to increase your referral traffic:
1. Web 2.0 submission
2. Linkwheel
3. Social Media Marketing
4. Classified submission etc.

higher traffic on website is depend upon good on page optimization and off page optimization. on page optimization means whatever changes you makes in your web site to improve your ranking in search engine and off page optimization means whatever changes you makes beside website. in on page optimization you will have to work on Title, keywords, content, header tags, bold & italics, anchor text, meta description and etc. whereas in off pages you will have to take care of backlinks. how strong incoming backlinks are attached to your website and for that you will have to work on directory submission, article submission, blog comments, social bookmarking, forum comment and etc.. like this there are hundred of different strategies available. its up to you which of them to choose and utilize.

You should create Blogs and optimize these blogs then you can get referral Traffic from these blogs.
The second way to get traffic create sub domain of your website it can be also increase your referral Traffic.

Try out Facebook and twitter for earning huge traffic. Apart from this, I would advice you to maintain fresh and flawless content on your website. As suggested above, you can also create your blog and promote it.

You know social media activities more helpful to boost referral traffic to your website. Social bookmarking, posting on social networking websites, Blogs, Article posting, Forums can help you more to boost referral traffic and rankings as well in search engines.

Hi,
You have to make a report according to the extent (traffic+bounce rate) of the referral domains. After analyzing the nature of domains, you can modify your strategy of promotion, accordingly. There is no need to learn a particular method, you can promote your site using the processes of Internet Marketing like; SEO, SMO Banner ads and so on.

If you already doing link building techniques and SEO then one thing remains that is social media optimization. Social media have good amount of traffic which you can target for your website. In this you need to blogger related activities and share on social media websites to get good amount of traffic..

Do more of what you are doing. In order for more visitors coming from placed links on other site ... you need to have more links on other sites.
Also did you tried the social sites like Twitter, Facebook?

i think you have to do more then more directive submission and bookmoarking...

You can do link referral for your site. Linkreferral is good site where you can do link referral and link review for your site. In this you can visit 30 sites daily and post five review for other site.

Social networking is the best technique to increase the traffic on the website.

I think you should try for Social bookmarking submission, Social Media sites profile creating and add friends to post your products and services and also do some popular classifieds and more..