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Beginners Guide to Web Promotion [webmasterworld.com]
Link Development Versus Traffic Development [webmasterworld.com]
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These steps are important to that you do not regret anything in the future. If you have any errors you should fix them before search engines index you.
The least cost effective ways (free)are :
Submission to DMOZ [dmoz.org] This may take a long time.
If you are a member of any message board put your web site in your signature so that people can find you and link to your web site if you have a good content.
Write articles and submit them to article portals.
Try to exchange links with ONLY related sites not exceeding 5 link exchanges. (This maybe hard for the beginning since you will not have a zero PR rank.)
If you want a quick way, you should invest some money for advertising.
Sooner or later you will get incoming links and ranks if you have a decent content.