As Tess stated trakbacks are very important for instance you need to be blogging both your own blog and on other peoples blogs which brings back traffic to your site. Directory submissions is very important also.

Start blogging on a daily basis and MAKE SURE your comments are worth the read so that people will come back to your site.

Keep yourself very active on the internet and get your site out there. Stick too Social Networking, Blogging, Article Marketing is a must for seo (make sure a copy of the article is on your site first before you post it on the directories), directory submission, keyword rich content, ensuring all you images on your site have titles, no broken links, titled pages and no duplicate content on other websites or pages (do not have 2 websites with the same content).

If you do all of the above you will succeed in the search engines. There is no promse that you will be on the first page because there are many sites out there that have been doing this for a very long time. Committ to it and one day you will reach your success.

Good luck