start with link building. this is a never ending job. more backlinks tou have, more popular your site will be over time. Here’s how you can build some free one way links: Search for free directory, website directory, submit directory, etc and you will find lot of results. Submit to as many as you can under relevant category. Search for related sites where you can add links to. For example, if your site is related to football, then you can search for “football add url†or “football add link†and you will find some sites where you can add your link to. Search for related blog articles and add relevant comments on the blog post. You can search for football add comment or football blog add comment, etc. be creative on your search terms to find variation of results. When you add comments on a blog, it is important to remember that you need to add some value to the blog post and submit related comment. DO NOT SPAM any blog Search for free press release or submit free press release and submit your article to as many PR sites you can. You can add anchor text link on a press release article. This will get you going for some time. Hope that helps.
I think your site is new. Try to use pay per click advertising. This way of advertising is rather effective for sites that appeared recently like yours. It can help you get more traffic at the initial stage of your site development. Though it's only one of many methods you can try. Have you thought about applying for SEO professionals' help?
If your site is new it will take some time to start building popularity. It could take months before your backlinks show up in search results. If you haven't already, I would recommend that you use Google's Webmaster Tools to keep track of your backlinks.
I'm new to this link directory thing. How can anyone get 1000 directories. I'm having trouble finding any quality ones. I'm very skeptical signing up to these... I'm looking for quality directories. I found this one on google search. linkdirectory dot com. I emailed them to see feel them out. Popularity takes time... lots of time.
What is article submissions? tonight I posted at two blog posts about music gear and wrote a big long comment and strategically placed my link in the comment, so it wouldn't appear as spam. I wrote it as if I was a guest that visited my site, not as the owner. 2nd or 3rd party submissions are better than the owner submitting, no?