Now, a website with no marketing is no more than a speck of dust floating through space - chances are that no one knows that it is there.  Now, if you were to market your website a bit, you would find that people and search engines would begin to notice the site and your visits would skyrocket.

How do you go about promoting your website?  The trick here is to engage in a little link building to let everyone know that you are there.  Some of the most common link building ideas include directory submission, article writing, and forum posting.  While these methods will help you to get some traffic, there are other things that you need to do to get noticed.

You will find your search engine rankings and traffic will increase if you have some high value links pointing back to your site.  A good way to do this would be to contribute constructive (and useful) comments on blogs that are related to your niche.  You could also use social marketing and get other people to bookmark your website - and you might luck out and get links from people with high traffic profiles.

Just be sure that your link building strategies are not spammy in nature - if they are, you will cause more damage to your site and reputation.  Just be sure to build a few new links everyday - and you will see traffic heading your way.