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SEO the best free traffic method?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Ty Tessier, Feb 24, 2009.

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    Good Morning everybody!

    My first post here! Hope ya'll doing alright!

    I have an ecommerce and I have a tough time to bring traffic to it. I'd like to have your experts opinion on ...Is SEO the best free traffic generation method? I simply have no money to buy traffic and I've done all the basics to my website about SEO but I still don't see my pages coming up in the SE. So far, it looks to me that SEO is more of a long term traffic generation method... But I'm probably wrong about this...I'm fairly new to marketing online...

    Any comments or tips would be more than welcome.

    Thank you very much in advance!
    Ya'll have a great day
     
    Ty Tessier, Feb 24, 2009 IP
  2. ipluck

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    What aer your questions?
     
    ipluck, Feb 24, 2009 IP
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    Build a blog on wordpress or blogger. Make it a subdomain of your site. This helped me.
     
    wickfree, Feb 24, 2009 IP
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    Hi welcome Ty. :)

    Read up and familiarize yourself with SEO and see what works for your business.

    Do what you can to optimize your site on your own and when you get to the point where it is too much hire out some of your work.

    When you read up on SEO you'll know what questions to ask and be more selective who you delegate your work too.

    Hope this helps.
     
    jpearce, Feb 24, 2009 IP
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    vansterdam Notable Member

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    Yes SEO is definitely the best free marketing strategy. It is not the easiest thing for beginners to pick up though. There are many strategies to use and specific rules to follow. You should read up on various link building strategies and try some of those for yourself. It is best to read as much as you can about seo first.
     
    vansterdam, Feb 24, 2009 IP
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    Initially better you could hire someone for SEO.
     
    kutekutta, Feb 24, 2009 IP
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    adding a blog to your site will help. also, getting inbound links from squidoo, digg and ezinearticles alone helps a lot.
     
    vidgod, Feb 24, 2009 IP
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    LinkGenie Active Member

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    You should have lots of traffic methods. One is SEO. You could use other methods also. You know the theory of "Dont put all your eggs in one basket".
     
    LinkGenie, Feb 24, 2009 IP
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    The best free traffic is viral marketing. SEO is extremely useful though
     
    wokaka, Feb 24, 2009 IP
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    mit Well-Known Member

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    SEO definitely is the best free traffic generation method including many methods like social bookmarking, directories submissions, article submissions etc.
     
    mit, Feb 24, 2009 IP
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    Know your keywords, know your customers and know their needs. Build blogs and submit every post to social bookmarking sites. Submit articles to ezinearticles.com and once published, post them into your own blogger blogs which in turn points out to your site.

    More traffic tricks in my signature. Click the link.
     
    Philvault, Feb 25, 2009 IP
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    mehtaamit12 Banned

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    blog can divert a ton of traffic to your site
     
    mehtaamit12, Feb 25, 2009 IP
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    somethings i have learned.. search before you write so that you can offer different content. Cover thing that others has left
     
    tailender1, Feb 25, 2009 IP
  14. Ty Tessier

    Ty Tessier Peon

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    Nice!

    Thank you very much people for all your help! Wow! That forum rules! :D

    I think I'll start with setting up a blog and work on SEO a bit every day.

    Some suggest that the blog should be a sub domain of my website, others say it should be on an independent domain with back links to my website? What do you guys think about this? I wonder which one is the best to increase organic search results...

    Thanks in advance to all!
    Ty
     
    Ty Tessier, Feb 25, 2009 IP
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    any SEO expert around the web?
    I mean, someone that can place my adult site in first position into search engines,
    no experts that take only big money......
     
    hellboy78, Feb 25, 2009 IP
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    You could try making lenses about the products in your e-commerce site.
    Another idea is to write articles about them and include the links to your site.

    Just trying to help :D
     
    xlizard, Feb 25, 2009 IP
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    Use search a bit for some tips. Yes SE traffic is the best to go with, free and really huge % of customers if you are targeting the niche traffic.
     
    mg_, Feb 25, 2009 IP