Blogs are a good way to increase your traffic but videos will out perform blogs ten to one if done right. They will also help you to brand yourself and build trust.

People like to view videos more than they like to read. Places like MySpace and YouTube have become the place to place you videos, of course you need to do what is known as indirect advertising in these place to keep from being thrown out.

It also help to add video to your website again, people are more likely to stay and watch a video before they stay and read your site. This gives you more time to get your point across.

When people read your site you have about 3 seconds to gain their interest with a video you can have as much as 2 to 3 minutes as long as the video has good content in it.

Hope this helps

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Promote your website using social marketing.  When you're able, try Google Ad words and work on seo.

First, forget search engine marketing. There's a billion other people doing the same thing. You don't think you can compete with companies that have million dollar advertising budgets do you?

Second, you should actively promote your business by networking, either online or at networking events.

RandBCreations,

Although, your 15 simple rules have a little bit of common sense, Getting high traffic to your web site is not that easy. Although, it sounds easy it's not. One would assume that if you follow your guide lines customers would come in flocks and clean you out. But from my personal experience, It is not so much the keywords or key phrases, that increase your traffic, it's a mixture of both content, and keywords. Having content rich pages, will definitely increase your search engine visibility. From my personal experience as a web developer / SEO Guru. Here's what I've found.

1. Make sure your web site is coded correctly, having errors in your code can hinder your web site's ability to rank and may not be cross-browser compatible.

2. When Using Images, make sure you give them titles and name them accordingly. Image002345 will not work. If you're selling a flowers you name your image like this:red-rose-bouquet-1 or something that tells the search engines what that image is and follow up with a brief description.

3. Use proper HTML mark-up and learn how to use your H1,h2,h3,h4,h5 headers, use your paragraph <p> tags, learn to use them. Avoid using "&nsbp's" for pacing / padding. Learn how to use CSS to control the look of your site.

4. Avoid using tables if possible when designing your web sites, as browsers continue to get more sophisticated tables can sometimes slowdown your web site and may not display correctly through out the web.

5. When using Keywords, make sure you use, content rich keywords: What this means is: if you're talking about lemons in your content, make sure you use the keyword "Lemons" in your keywords.

6. Know what's the difference between a keyword and a key-phrase. For example: red,rose, can also, be keyphrase "red rose". Or lemon,tree can also be "lemon tree" I've learned that by separating the key phrases into keywords, it makes it more random than using a specific term. Also, there is no need to repeat the same word over and over just because you use keyphrases, for example: If you're going to name more than 1 objects such as a rose, there is no need for you to keep repeating the word over and over for example: lets say you are talking about three different color roses, well this is what most people do: Red rose, yellow rose, white rose.... This is a NO-NO... you can re-write the same to "red,yellow,white,rose" There is no need to repeat the words over and over... this is saturation and it's not needed.

7. Use ROBOTS = INDEX/FOLLOW rule

8. Avoid using the revisit in XX amount of days tag. Remember, if you tell the search bots to revisit every 5 days per say. The robots will do as instructed. So avoid the revisit meta tag.

9. Use Google Web Master Tools to Generate a robot.txt file and upload it to your web site. The robot text file tells the search engines which directories you want the search engines to search in. Also, if you do not include a robot text. Avoid, leaving any old-copies of your web site on your server. Since the search engines might crawl to unwanted copies of your site.

10. Create a SiteMap, everytime you create a new page. There are thousands of sitemap.xml generators out there, use them.

Once you've done the steps above.... Now you're ready to verify and submit your web site to search engines... and keep up the efforts...

Very good information!  Make sure you do both on page and off page SEO. 

agree with all . . . this is what has worked for me in every venture i have pursued online

after implementing the basic white hat marketing techniques

focus on creating and delivering quality content. all else will follow you (subscribership, followers, readership, links, traffic, sales, etc)

this assumes you are versed with SEO and are applying it to everything you do

Wikipedia -Contribute to relevant pages and include an URL to your websites.  How to contribute? By providing relevant, interesting and informative content.

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Getting traffic to a website has always been something I've been interested in. My website gets an extensive amounts of clickthroughs each and every day. One of the best things you can do if you are just starting out is develop a better understanding for SEO. Also known as search engine optimization. It will be quite useful for you to understand as a website owner.

When learning about it ensure to avoid the blackhat methods as this could easily get your website banned from the search engines and diminish your rankings quickly. Even though black hat helps you get high rankings in the SERPs the results do not last.

There are many things you can do to get high traffic to your website and the best thing is to ensure you are getting seen by the right public. Make all the necessary changes you need to your website so that it appeals to your market, including reviewing your competition. They will be able to easily show you how they are doing it just by their visual appeal and content on their web pages.

Hope I could help,

Hi,

I try to my site get top level high traffic, I did lot of SEO, But still not yet get a good position. Any one please give a suggestion.