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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[Kevin King]

Wow! Sounds like you've tried just about everything. But truth is that a lot of the methods that you mentioned do in fact work, but the results may not be immediate - and some may not work for you as well as others or not at all. It's all about testing usually over a minimum 30 - 90 day period to really gauge results. One method that has stood the test of time as a great free advertising strategy is article marketing. Perhaps you should try that because we all know the Content is King! For best results submit a unique article to each directory. There are hundreds of article directories online.

[Merrysugar897]

I am in the exact same process with my website(s). The most powerful way to get higher search rankings (PageRank)is with Inbound Links from High ranking sites within your industry. It really takes a lot of time, and a good public image. Articles are a great way, and answering Yahoo! Questions is good also. Get involved with Professional Networks (for free). Any traffic is good traffic.

ALSO, none of this helps with SEO if your site is not properly optimized. Title tags and description tags MUST match the content on your pages. Links, Link text, and Link titles should all correspond to the keywords you've selected.

Check out my article on SEO:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Meta-Tags,-Key...id=5442794

[Colin]

looks like traditional advertising still has a future - get out with the leaflets

[Tanya Anand]

Best way to SEO - On page ,Off page and optimization

[friedmanadie]

SEO is not a one-time big-time strategy. It requires hard work, time and continuous effort. As for me, the most effective seo strategies I've done is continuous link building efforts, social network marketing and article marketing. There are couple of webpages that speak to this matter more than I do. I posted one below.

[Sidrah N]

Try some more video media marketing sites like photobucket, flicker, photoshare.com etc. There are loads n loads of them on the internet. Wish you best of luck !!

[Lauren Green]

Hi Kahn,

You would need to build more stable and long lasting links by submitting articles to reputable article directories like Ezine (example). It takes time and consistency to build up your page rank. Plus the fact that you also need to know whether your keywords are the ones being highly searched for or not.

Try Google External Keyword Tool to see how much searches your keywords are generating and focus on the stronger ones to promote.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Bottom line is still building links consistently to reputable sites to pull your website up.

Here are some articles that will help explain further with good information and tips :

http://ecommerce.instantestore.com/?s=seo

Hope this helps.

Lauren

[Doodled]

I agree to some extent with Constant Strategies answer.

You have got to get your own website right first before all the off-site stuff you are talking about in your question (CPC, CPM, etc.)

Have a look at this page which shows over 20 things to do on your own site before you start thinking about doing things on Twitter, etc.
http://howtoseo.link2light.com/how-to-se...e_plan.php

Now if you Google 'How to SEO your website' you'll see this site in the top 10 - and that is without any of the things you have mentioned in your question - no twitter, no adwords, no social bookmarking (as of the date of this answer!).