Here’s a quick checklist of tips on improving site traffic (in no particular order):

Submit URLs to search engines and web directories to start the ranking process: Technorati, Google, Alexa, DMOZ.
A good domain name and targeted meta tags can help improve search engine rankings. Keep your tags relevant to your data.
Check your site validation from time [...]

Google Webmaster Tools is a service offered by Google for the purpose of indexing and ranking. In addition to the natural crawling, the Sitemap Protocols help to acquire additional information about the website URL, in terms of the latest updates, frequency of updates, and so on.
The graphs and diagnostics are fascinating enough to be duped [...]