So you have created a website and want to know What are the different web traffic generation methods?

For traffic, there are 3 ways:

1) search engine : Google,yahoo, Bing etc which is what we call organic traffic. Search engine is the main source. Have you of heard SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION ? SEO means to optimize your site to rank higher in Search Engine. Select keywords for your site. Use adwords keywords tool to find your keywords. Make sure you choose keywords that have a reasonable number of searches and less competition. Do on page SEO through which you can add these keywords to your website header. Rank high on keywords. That is the key to traffic.

2) From different sites for this do backlinks using different methods.

3) Type in : means visitor typing your address on browser and coming. Is not possible as you are not Google or yahoo.

For backlinks, learn the concept of dofollow and nofollow first.

After learning it find pages with High PR and not the sites with high PR. PR is basically the Page Rank which is assigned by the Google. It starts from 0 and goes to 10 where 10 is the best and 0 the worst.

For traffic, if you need the instant traffic then use Yahoo Answers, Google groups, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, Spamming in Facebook and Myspace groups and many more ways.

Promotion via video sites like youtube ,metacafe and many other sites also prove to be good. Just download your niche related videos and watermark them with your link or use Screenshots in between the videos and reupload as many different videos as you can on different sites.

If you can arrange ADWORD and FACEBOOK ADs activated accounts then promotion of your site link in form of AD's can also be done.This method is known as PPC (Pay per click) method.

Make Onlywire.com and ping.fm full integrated accounts and attach them into your site using the available plugins available. Google it and you can find them easily.You can attach 5 Accounts per blog or site easily.These will broadcast your site updates to all the accounts in ping and onlywire.
Twitterfeed.com can also be used to broadcast your updates on Facebook and Twitter.

If you are thinking of getting the steady and targeted traffic for conversions for a long time then start to learn SEO. Invest time to learn the basics. Best option these days i would suggest to learn to make Good Quality LINK WHEEL using WEB 2.0 Sites.

Other methods available except link building are blog commenting, Directory submissions, RSS submissions, Search Engine submissions, Social bookmarking, press releases and much more!!

Hope this info can give you some rough image for your traffic.

How to make your pages rank high in google

Go to Google Adwords Keyword Tool

Input a keyword relating to your website or put your website address and search

You will see a list of keywords and no of searches and competition.

Select a keywords that have a reasonable amount of searches and least competition.

Add these keyword to your website's meta data.

After a while you will see that your site ranks high and appears in the first page of google search