One way to drive traffic to your website is to setup a paid PPC (pay-per-click) campaign with one of the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. Google AdWords is by the far the most popular paid advertising network and if you have a little money to spend you can get almost instant traffic to your site.

Another way to get traffic to your site is to find some high-ranking websites that already exist and see if you can get a link from that site to the website you are trying to drive traffic to. Sometimes you can contact a website owner directly and get your link added, either by trading links or by paying them to add your link to their page.

One good service to use to get your link added to a high ranking site is to use text-link-ads.com. This site allows you to purchase text links on sites that match themes similar to your own site. It's certainly a good way to get your link out there. Having links on multiple high-quality sites will help increase your rankings in the search engines and thereby drive more traffic to your site.

Another method to get traffic to your site is to have your link included in blog postings. Find someone that has a blog and see if they will include a text link within their blog post. If this is not an option then starting finding blogs where you can post your own comments. Within your comment you can include a link back to your site thus increasing your linking power.

Article marketing is another method to help gain traffic to your site. You can write your own article that is related to the theme of your site and submit the articles to various article directories found on the net. Witin the article be sure to include an "author" box that includes a link back to your site. This is a very valuable method to gain more links to your site.

Web 2.0 sites are the hot new thing to help gain traffic to your site. Web 2.0 sites are sites that have social interaction in mind. You can setup an account on Web 2.0 sites and use them to gain more traffic to your other sites. Web 2.0 sites include MySpace.com, Twitter.com, and even this site, HubPages.comm. Bookmarking sites are also considered Web 2.o sites.and if you can get people to bookmark you site then it will help you gain popularity in the search indexes.

Other sites that you can use to gain links back to your site include classified ad sites, and forum sites. By posting to these sites you can add additional sites linking to your main site.

The key is to get as many different sites as possible linked to your own site. It is preferable to get links on sites that are related to yours. This holds higher linking power and in turn will help you get higher search engine rankings and thus more traffic to your website.