Local search listing and both online and offline marketing backlinks
Step to step Off-page activities in terms of SEO are as follows--------------------------
5-6 responses or 2-3 new questions a day (with your website’s URL in the signature) in 5 different popular forums a day is all that it will take to get a decent traffic on to your website.
Some favorite SEO Forums are :
Everyone in the web community knows the importance of blog and news updates on your company/ product website. Not only it attracts search engine crawlers to visit your website more often, it also helps you generate more back links by submitting these articles on press release and bookmarking websites.
List of the some best blogging sites:
www.blogsome.com
www.xanga.com
www.BusyThumbs.com
http://www.wordcountjournal.com
www.ClearBlogs.com
www.ShoutPost.com
Bookmarking websites are a good source of traffic generation for your website.
Starting from these sites:------------
Mixx
Propeller
3. Create your social profile & share your news update with the community –
The first names that lighten up in our minds are Facebook, Twitter & Myspace. Make sure you create a public social profile for the company that you are promoting. You ought to have your Facebook Fan page, Twitter profile, Youtube profile, LinkedIn profile (of yourself and/or your clients). This is your social profile. Following are must-do activities whenever you have a new blog or new story published on your website or blog -
Flickr – “A picture is worth a thousand words” is not exactly true in the world of SEO which relies heavily on content full of words. But still Flickr stands out and can become a good source of traffic for your website. Just make sure that whenever you write an article, you add an image in your post and submit that image on your Flickr profile with apt tags and description.
Picasa, Photobucket & Picli are some other photo sharing networks.
Dailymotion
Slideshare
Focus on submitting your articles to the top 20-30 article directories as below. Highest Alexa and Google rankings Articles Submission are very important.
EzineArticles -The big daddy of article directories. If you could only choose one place to submit your articles, this would be a good choice. PR6
ArticleBase -This article directory has grown to a PR6 with lots of content and praise from article syndication experts.
GoArticles -This one claims to be the largest, but I’m pretty sure #1, #3, and #4 give it a run for it’s money. PR4
American Chronicle -Actually part of a network of article sites. PR6
ArticleCity -Pretty much your standard article directory. PR5
Articles Factory -Mid-level article site. PR4
SelfGrowth -Won’t find this one in auto-submission software. Must become an “expert” first to then get access to submit articles. PR6
A few examples of such sites are -
Hotfrog,
