To start with your website will need to be well optimized by several different SEO methods. Increasing your backlinks and pagerank will increase your traffic but before you get started on increasing your backlinks you will need to check a few things and ensure that they have all been done correctly.

1. You need to be sure that you website has been correctly designed and that it contains no broken links and that your internal linking structure has been correctly designed and is functioning properly.

2. Double check that the title, keywords, and description of your website are all correct and placed in their correct locations.

Once you have done this you can star on your backlinks and pagerank:

Most of the search engines give pagerank for every page of your website and your pagerank will depend on your backlinks. Should your webpage have multiple backlinks coming from multiple sources then your likely to get a good pagerank. Its important to know that you should improve the pagerank of every page on your website as most search engines will also give pagerank for each page of your website. Doing this will help to improve the traffic on your website.

To increase your backlinks and pagerank you should try the following things:

1. There are many large search engines out there, be sure to register your site with them.

2. Remember to make sure that your site is also register with search engines that are country wide.

3. Check out the niche search engines and be sure to register your website with them.

4. Create Rich Site Summary (also known as RSS) for your site and create sitemap.xml for use among the multiple RSS Submissions websites that are out there.

5. Offer your website in multiple languages. Doing so will not only open you to other countries but it will also get your website listed on other web pages. (the most popular languages to use are English, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese)

6. To really go back to the basics, don’t forget about doing a url exchange with someone who has a website with good traffic.

7. Another oldie but a goodie is to have online store through more than one website.

8. To draw some good attention to your site you can also put out a press release with your websites link in it.