If you want to start getting traffic to your new site, you shouldn’t underestimate the power of article writing.  If I were starting a new site right now, one thing I would do is outsource article writing to get traffic and quality back links to improve SERPs on my site.

I’d make a spreadsheet of all the keywords with traffic and low competition related to my niche and then post a project on Elance.com to find a writer. For $100, I could probably get 20 articles done. (This means you can target 20 keywords / key-phrases which should give a nice amount of traffic and links at the same time.)

After the articles are completed, I’d submit each article to an article site. I’d chose ezinearticles and articlealley as my article sites of choice because both of these sites are trusted by Google and tend to show up in SERPS for low competition keywords.

After my twenty articles have been submitted, I’d social bookmark (Digg, stumbleupon, reddit, etc) each of the articles to get them indexed quickly.

Within a week, your articles should show up in Google for your targeted keywords. This will give you some nice daily traffic and also help push your own site up in the search engines.