I was wondering if there is anything you can add to your site that will make google find your site easier or climb you up the ranks faster?
If you add images to your website they might get index by the Google image search and you can get some traffic that way.
Proper onpage optimization, clear link structure (including 'about', 'contact' and 'privacy policy' pages) and an XML sitemap submitted to GWMT and updated regularly are pretty much all you can do internally. From there on, you should start working on external link building.
Yeah external linking is really the key if you've done everything right from an on site point of view.
Ditto Good original content that works with Google to provide the most relevant and useful results to whatever search query is in question. Goog use of Titles Good use of H Tags Good content with your relevant keywords in asap, and just keep helping Google to provide the best results and you will be rewarded accordingly. Google just wants to provide the best serach results - help them to do so and they will love you for it.
Don't know about content... as far as I concerned google is pretty bad at handling uniq content, and goes more for links. As example to prove my point: I have few sites and one of them is full blown ShitSite with only copypast content and about 50 external links(google index it just GREAT!) And there is another one, site with 100% original content about 1300 pages of uniq text(each page has around 400-500 symbols) which I wrote by myself, few links and 1 page in google index(main)!
Apply for a google job like a programmer or engineer Maybe they have some insights and tricks to climb faster. But really just keep working it takes time.
Best bet is keep working on the site adding new content G loves content it eats it up and makes it feel full up and warm and fuzzy so where will it go to eat if its feeling hungry "Your Site" which has lots and lots of great new content. Content Content link building should always come second to that. IMO
If your site is new , it can't get much traffic from Google for even unique quality content on new sites might go to supplemental results. You need to get external links to new content in this case...
Google uses links to find, index, and rank sites. Get links, get results - very simple process. For $10 you can get some links in this forums services area.