What are the best free ways to draw traffic to your retail web site?

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The simplest way to bring traffic to your site is to use PPC (pay per click) advertising. If you have a budget to work with this is an excellent way to instantly bring visitors to your website. If you are interested in PPC advertising then you will most likely want to use Google Adwords. As a bonus, if you are a first time Google Adwords customer then you are able to take advantage of an excellent $100 Adwords credit GoDaddy gives you every time you open a hosting account with them. Using that $100 credit is an excellent way to see if an Adwords campaign is right for you.

And second method is to use general SEO techniques
You should focus on the following techniques for your main SEO strategy:
1. On Page SEO - Optimize your on-page content to reflect your carefully chosen keywords
==\> Titles, headers, keyword density, tags, quality outbound links, etc...

2. Off Page SEO - Link building (One way link building in particular)
An extremely important aspect in search engine optimization is link building. One way link building is the best link building method and should be your top priority. This is where your website link appears on someone else's site. Google likes to see links to your niche market site from various other relevant sites. All sites are not created equal however. Not only does Google like to see sites linking back to your site, but those websites must also be relevant and authoritative sites. One backlink from a reputable and popular site is worth more than one hundred backlinks from shady lesser known sites. This is include articles marketing, social networking, social bookmarking, directory submission, etc.

And remember to always use whitehat SEO technique if you don't want to get your site banned
Hope this help you