If your blog is genuine, the best way i found to get traffic, is to write article according to the visitors needs you find on forums or social network.
Her, what i use to do for a blog dealing with tech news.
I hanged out in some famous support forum in my country and yahoo answer
As soon as i'd noticed a question that would be able to be popular and easy to rank for. I use to write a tuto about it, or publish a free ebook (for dummies for exemple)
Then, i come back to the place and say look what i've found !! You can ask in a comment to the author of this blog, if you don't find your answer. Then i dropped the link anywhere i found the same question, or topic related
1 year later, i still have hundreds of visitors using the very same links
Regarding the monetize action, i've tried adsense several time and i was doing fine (20€ / day) but they banned me each time i asked for payment for illegal content. Seems that they dislike the "how to hack google with some queries" article .... So, now it works with donation with SMS. I won 50 bucks over month with it...