Search engine optimization, while hands-down the most effective method for long-term, high-quality traffic, is not an overnight process. Depending on how competitive your keyword is, it can take anywhere from a few weeks, to a few months to start seeing organic traffic from the search engines. To help you get some good traffic while you wait for the search engines to push your website up the rankings, here are a few quick ways to start SEO on a new website.
Networking
In the early days of your new website, the majority of your traffic will be coming from other, more established websites within your niche. The most effective way to snag some of this traffic is to network with web masters, blog owners, and anyone else at the top of a well-established website. This can lead to these webmaster giving you a mention on their website or something similar, instantly making you an authority in the eyes of their readers. Ideally, you could form partnerships with some of these web masters which will give you a significant boost in traffic early in your SEO career. For example, you could offer to split the profits from an e-book you wrote by asking a webmaster to send your e-book to his already established e-mail list.
