1. Make sure you have unique content on your website. Search engine robots look at all websites on a regular basis looking for sites with fresh and new content - they love it! Of paramount importance is new and quality information content. This will help immensely when it comes to getting indexed. I create new content daily!
2. Do your keyword research and have all your keywords on your website. It is important to have all the niche relevant keywords and phrases relative to your topic on your web pages and any of the articles you post on your website. Doing that will increase your website ranking on search engines and in time your website will rank high when people are searching for the terms you have used! You will then get lots of visitors coming to your site via the search engines. When people get to your site, your fresh, good quality content will hopefully make people stay longer and ultimately buy some of the products or services you have on offer!
3. Since your website is brand new, you must submit it to search engines. Submitting your URL to the Google, Yahoo, MSN etc is an important step you should take towards getting traffic because you can't be seen until you are indexed. Once your URL is indexed by the engines, you can expect traffic for your chosen keywords because searches can now find you.
4. Start building back links! Reciprocal linking is not as effective as it used to be - but it's better than no back links at all! You can reciprocal link with high PR(page rank) sites for best results. Reciprocal links with popular sites that are related to your niche is a good way to drive some traffic to your new website, and improve your site's ranking. Traffic will start coming from other sites you have linked to.
So get to it! Follow these strategies and you'll see it's not as hard as you thought! These are four quick ways to get going with getting traffic to your new website!