Website traffic will offer more number of benefits. There are several marketing techniques which helps you to easily increase the traffic. 1. Integrating website with social media sites (Facebook, Twitter). Use social media extensions. 2. Hire SEO experts to improve the performance of the website and increase the visibility. 3. Attract customers by offering discounts, deals, reward points. Use loyalty program.
What I do is find where my readers are hanging out and then engaging them in topics like forums, blogs, twitter etc..
Guest posting to high traffic website. It is the quickest way to jump up your traffic and reputation online
If there were SEO experts out there would they NOT optimize their own sites and make millions rather than offering their services to others for pennies? That has never made sense to me, which tells me that the whole SEO business is downright bogus.
I agree, I think SEO isn't working anymore with Google constantly changing. Its more like how to find a long term solution.
I've never been a big fan of seo. I always went for indirect Google traffic (ie: Adwords). It is what it is i guess. For traffic i love to do alot of paid advertising. Gets me fast results, and allows me to do testing on the fly.
SEO is never dead nor it is futile these days. It just gets tougher because of all the Big G's update. Consistently, an SEO company or expert should adjust their/his strategy referenced with the Google's Algorithm update
Here are some ways to increase traffic - Blogging Case Studies Howto Guides Press Releases Infographics Reports & Trends Articles PDF and eBooks Web Forums Reviews Guest Blogging Videos PPTs Images/Photos Interviews Lists Q/A websites Competitions and Reviews Facebook Twitter Linkedin Google+ Local Business Listings Podcasts Create Modules, Plugins and Extensions Copied from http://www.slideshare.net/inBoundio/25-ways-to-do-content-marketing
Here some tips to your first ultimate guide: Subscribe to hundreds of blogs in your field – Get to know what is going on in your industry, wait for that single piece of eye-opening information that no one has blogged about and then create an ultimate guide. Read posts on your topic – Once you have an idea about an ultimate guide, see if there are any others out there. If there are, how can you make yours different? Can you combine some of the current guides to make an ultimate guide? Provide a ton of screenshots – Even if the topic behind your ultimate guide is pretty basic, provide screenshots. The visuals break up the content and help people scroll through it. If the topic is complex, then do screen shots of the steps. Present case studies – An ultimate guide comes alive when you share real life examples. People tend to believe what you are saying when you have credible examples.
I disagree with you, SEO is not always the best, it only gives you an edge to some extend and I agree with @alvinhy because that's the best way to send targeted traffic to your site.
But, SEO is a long term process and most of the times it failed to provide the expected result to the business owners.
Getting traffic is very simple and handy but to have conversions of sales from the traffic will be a tough one