Just Finished My Site, Now How To Get Traffic?

One of the easiest ways to drive traffic to a brand new website is to find niche-specific message boards and begin posting away. Juice yourself into the niche community (find out what they talk about, how they do things, etc) and then use your sig line to advertise your site. Traffic will come. If you can find about five of these niche-specific forums and you'll see a ton of targeted traffic come pouring in.

Next up is SEO. Start researching backlink building, on page optimization and try to get your site ranked for most popular keyword in your niche.

Start a Facebook fanpage. Pay some guys on fiverr to blast your page to their thousands of friends. It's definitely worked for me on many of occasions and now Facebook is a huge traffic driver for my sites.

You can even start tying everything together in a big traffic funnel. Use the message boards to send people to your Facebook fanpage, which will then funnel them to your website, hopefully having them LIKE the page in the process.

Bottom line is just make as much noise as you possibly can (or afford).

Backlinks, keyword optimization, and article writing.

Especially the article writing. Write some quality content for EzineArticles. You'll come across as knowledgable in your field, and you'll get a high PR backlink out of it to boot.

"I hear backlinks, keywords and having a lot of content are a fewuseful tools to achieving this"

You heard correctly! Once I have completed setting up one of my sites, I start building quality backlinks to it. Don't waste your time with PR 0 etc, go after PR3-4 +. This means less work and more link juice.

Specific Niche Forums
Article Marketing
Press Releases
Social Media Marketing

For Google traffic, you need back links to prove your value to Google's search algorithms...

For people to click your links directly, you need to appeal to their interests, wants and desires with the content you present to the world. Talk to them about what they want to talk about.

Just as I am talking to you now in the forum environment, answering your question in a way that makes sense to you, you can do the same in a forum environment, attract the interest of others, and perhaps some click-through traffic to your links in your signature.

Just a word from someone that has been making sites since around 2000. I don't have ANY finished sites.

SEO + Unique, Original and Informative Content...

As a complete newbie, this thread has been incredibly helpful.

The main thing I have found so far as a beginner, is to focus on developing that content before anything. If you focus too heavily on page rank, you'll be driving people to a site but give them no reason to stay.

Social Media, SEO, social proof included on your site (for when the ball get's rolling), articles, quality backlinks (rather than tons of usless backlinks). Mouth to mouth advertising, this means you need to provide unique quality, but this last method is not easy to achieve.

Content is king so make sure you optimize your site and that you have quality content first. It won't matter how much traffic you get to your site if you bounce rate is through the roof because of poor quality content.
Then, like many others have already said article submissions to high PR article directories, web 2.0 sites, social bookmarking, etc. Those things can get you backlinks and targeted traffic

Do on-page SEO to get to the first page of google where the traffic is. Fire quality backlinks to it too. Writing articles & submitting them to article directories help with getting traffic. The readers read your article & clivk on your link you provide.

Submit your site to various directory site, social bookmarking site, web 2.0, link bait etc..

you can visit my site and look at the affiliate tips which you can also use and apply to get or attract traffic by promoting your own created product...

Basicly biggest truth is that content is the "KING"!
So before you start with any promotion make sure to have someting usefull to offer to your visitors, that is if you wish for them to get back some times or to recomend you to next friend and so on (viral).
After producing great content rest is easy involving a lot of work
You must start building support sites, commenting on blogs, social bookmark, forum posts...

Backlinks is a good way to start. Social bookmarking is an easy way.