working on your site is not going to get you any backlinks. 1: submit to social sites 2: article marketing 3: forum posting It can take years to build any amount of decent links and traffic, and that really depends what you have to offer that people can not get at other sources. Are you trying to sell that bottle of rotten milk that I have seen on many other sites before you?
Article Marketing, directory submissions, social bookmarking. ... press releases with large submissions are a good way to get backlinks rather cheaply and easily
Well after using the search bar ( as the topic is covered or started at least 10 times a week ) - I would agree with most of the above. forum backlinks and article submissions tend to be the best