increasing website traffic?

[Ryan Turner - The Food Bible.net]

Has any one got any advice for gaining more web traffic to my flash based website(i'll be going html when i gain investment so this is just for now): http://www.thefoodbible.net in addition to what I'm already doing, which is link partnerships, facebook, twitter, articlebase, answering cookery questions on yahoo answers.

I have seen loads of adverts from online companies offering thousands of links for a monthly fee - are those a good idea or waste of money, and if they are a good idea - who should i use?

Thanks in advance

[M]

some of them are a good idea. which ones I cant say but there are many fakes so carefull and gl

[Connie Reader]

Paying for links is definitely a bad idea. The search engines are wise to these so-called "link farms", and will penalise sites that are participating in them.

You say you have a Flash-based site. Flash and search engine optimisation are mutually exclusive. Search engines can only search text, not Flash. There's nothing wrong with making a site predominately Flash, but don't expect it to rank high in search results. At the very least, you need to provide a lot of text to supplement the Flash.

But my overriding advice, for anyone wanting to score well with search engines, is first and foremost to develop a site that has interesting content - and lots of it. If there's nothing for the engines to index, your site might as well be invisible. If the site is interesting, it will attract links, and that's the best thing for getting a high ranking.

[the 1]

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[Gelmer Dester]

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[Phantom Knight]

You should buy targeted traffic in order they will come back to your website.
Social Networking is one of the great sources.

Beside that, you can purchase kinds of traffic to your website too.
http://www.ads-visitors.net

[Alok]

Improvement in traffic means more people visiting your website. To get qualified visitors, you can use proper keyword management. Check your content on your website if they offer the right information and the keyword concentration is correct.

There are off-site SEO which will supplement and direct traffic to your website from the search engines. You can do a few of these if you wish to have more traffic:

Article Submission
Press Release
Social Bookmarking
Social Networking

[Jeff Cross]

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