What is the best way to do SEO for your website online?

[JohnB]

All these cruddy websites spam you with the fact that they supposedly have the "best capability to get you noticed online" or use CPC or CPM. Well, I don't have an endless amount of moo-lah as most people can say about themselves as well. I don't want to purchase any ILLEGAL boosting software that will hurt my ranking or get me banned from google. Does anyone know of a way to bump up your Google and Yahoo rankings? (since it is so hard to get your site noticed unless you are a huge firm, celebrity, or have tons of cash?)

I have tried: Good Keywords (used key word creation tools, didn't work), twitter, facebook, myspace (back in the day), CPC or CPM (too expensive on a limited budget), google adwords, yahoo advertising, online classified ad's, tried social bookmarking (de.li.ci.ous, stumbleupon, folkd, etc.), Youtube (using good keywords/tags and putting it in a good category), Affiliate Marketing, and many more ways.

This would be for an online only service, not a local service or small business.

Is there really any way a person's/people's website can get noticed these days w/o putting much more into it than your Return on Investment will be worth?

(Any LEGAL software to use?)

I need help..I have a digital content download site and my monthly fees are accumulating faster than ever. They will cost so much more than my ROI on my downloads, sheesh, any ideas guys?
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