1. Write something great about your niche and email other bloggers to let them know – there’s a good chance they’ll link to you.
2. Have a signature link in forums that points to your site.
3. Post links to your pages to social bookmarking sites.
4. Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site (tip: look in the Digg upcoming section for blog posts about to get a lot of traffic).
5. Have the opposite opinion on everyone else on a popular topic. Everyone will link to you saying you’re wrong.
6. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers.
7. Post in Yahoo and Google Groups with a link to your site in your signature.
8. Make a 404 page that redirects to your homepage – no point losing visitors.
9. Have an opt-in form – trade links with someone else who has an opt-in form on your confirmation page.
10. Review a product or company – if your review is positive email the company and ask to be featured in their press section. (this has worked really well for me).
11. Write articles and submit them to article directories.
12. Write a Press Release and submit it to PRWeb (make sure it is newsworthy)
13. Use PayPerClick Traffic (e.g Adwords, MSN Adcenter, YSM).
14. Add an RSS subscribe button/link in a high profile spot on your site.
15. Add a mailing list subscribe form in a high profile spot on your site.
16. Add a bookmark this site link in a high profile spot on your site.
17. Use a Tell A Friend Script on your site so people can email their friend about an article on your website.
18. Submit a blog to a blog directory.
19. Submit you RSS feed to RSS feed directories.
20. Mention your website in a post on Craigslist (don’t spam).
21. Optimize the titles of your pages for keywords people will search for.
22. Buy links to your site
23. Buy reviews about your site on other people’s site.
24. Buy banner space on other websites if you can get a good ROI
25. Send articles to ezine publishers with a link back to your website
26. Do a big viral push for a piece of link bait, post it in forums, social bookmarking sites like Digg, email bloggers, and get a few people to vote for you on social bookmarking sites – this little push could start a viral chain reaction!
27. Have a link to your site on community sites like MySpace and FaceBook
28. Use a traffic trading system like BlogRush (be careful here).
29. Purchase misspellings of competitors domains and redirect your site (be careful of trademark infringement)
30. Create a freebie product to give away (ebook, software, whitepaper etc.)
31. Submit your site to the hundreds of free directories – use the viles-silencer directory list.
32. Do a group feature where you get other website owners in your niche to participate – maybe asking them all to give their opinion on something topical.
33. Hold a competition for the Top 50 websites in your niche – 1 month later post the results and watch lots of the sites featured link back to say what their position was.
34. Pass out business cards when you go to industry events in your niche. You could be passing it onto someone who might talk about you on their own website.
35. If you have a product start an affiliate program and start approaching affiliates
36. Submit videos to video sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Include a link in the description and within the actual video. Click here for a complete guide.
37. If you have a product then ask other website owners in your niche to review it.
38. Look at a big website within your niche and ask to write some guest posts for them for free, all you ask for is a link back to your site.
39. Create pages with links to your site on places like Squidoo and Hubpages.
40. Place classified Ads on eBay with a link to your website.
41. Use an autoresponder on your mailing list to keep people coming back to your site
42. Exchange links with a few related sites in your niche
43. Network! Email other site owners, phone them up, go to industry events and get yourself known. If they know your face they will likely talk about you on their site if you do something interesting.
44. Many forums have a place for you to advertise your site once – find those forums and post your ad.
45. Purchase advertising in other people’s mailing lists and newsletters
46. Create an Amazon profile and start submitting reviews
47. Create profiles on MySpace and start networking in groups that are interested in your site’s niche.
48. Conduct a survey and publish the results – make sure you let people know about it.
49. Get your hand on a load of PLR content for your niche. Add a commentary to the top, create a unique title, and post them all to your site – lots of new content and lots of new traffic.
50. Create a cartoon mascot for your site – then hold a competition for someone to create the best game for it – pay the winner a decent amount.
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What is SEO ?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most used techniques for Web marketing. SEO does help in the site promotions and at the same time it requires some technical knowledge – at least familiarity with basic HTML. In SEO most of the techniques that are used to promote sites in search engines deal with text. Also SEO can be defined as the activity of optimizing Web pages or whole sites in order to make them more search engine-friendly, thus getting higher positions in search results.
Search engine optimization helps to increase the web site traffic, SEO is not advertising. Of course, you can be included in paid search results for given keywords but basically the idea behind the SEO techniques is to get top placement because your site is relevant to a particular search.
