Getting visitors to your website is probably the hardest and the most important thing you have to do. The most direct way to do it is, you provide content, that is unique and interesting, and people will come on their own. But this can take time, so you should probably try to speed up the process.

Most websites get most of their visitors from the search engines , and that means, that your website should rate high at the search engines. Google, the biggest and probably the most important search engine will like you more, if you have unique content, if other sites, that are important and have a similar topic link to you and if you have a website, that is open for a long time.

The extra stuff that you need to do is to get links to your website. You can do this with posting your website to different directories (link directories), post on forums and put your link to the signature, post to blogs and leave the link to your website and other things.

You can also use one of the many social bookmarks system like digg, and if people will like your article, they will come to your website through digg, stumble upon or others.