Below are 10 surefire tips to improve your traffic through simple search engine optimization marketing strategies.

Often times its hard to find great websites and strategies that can easily boost your natural search rankings as well as drive traffic to your site, however I have 10 Solid tips you can utilize to truly help your rankings.  I believe in obtaining inbound links to your site that also bring traffic!

First off I would recommend everyone create a page on Squidoo! This site can drive a large amount of traffic to your Squidoo page, and if you create quality links to your site – you will help your rankings!

Second would have to be Article Sites, such as ArticleBase, GoArticles, Ezinearticles, and other popular article sites. Create some unique content and submit your article to these pages. Then once submitted, start using popular social book marking sites to link to your content. Such as Digg, Reddit, Furl del.icio.us and others.

Next, I would say its a great idea to create blogs pointing to your main site. Such as MyBlogLog, Blogger, Wordpress & others. Post occasionally, add friends to your blogs & move forward.

Fourth I would recommend creating a Myspace and Facebook about your web site, then create links to your site. This will help grab quality links that will stand the test of time.

Fifth, find a forum similar to your sites content. Post in the forum with your site in the signature, this will help to improve search rankings.

Sixth, become an expert writer about your sites topic and offer to contribute to other peoples web sites! This is a great idea to grab quality links and help others at the same time.

Seventh, Do a search for directory submissions relating to your web site. Lets say you have a car parts web site. You should search for the following phrase in Google to find quality sites to grab links from.

intitle:car+parts inurl:links

Eighth, I say that you look for sites looking for sponsors. Search the web for your topic and put in words like sponsors in to the search phrase.  This will pull up sites looking for a little financial help in exchange for a link.

Ninth, Network with a site like Linkdin. You can create great relationships with people in similar fields and find ways to drum up links.

Last but not least, I recommend that you create great content on your web site that will make people want to link to your site. This is the best tip that will help in the long run. All of the above 9 tips will help short term, this will help the most in the long run.

Joel McLaughlin

Organic Seo Consultant
DataFlurry Phoenix Internet Search Marketing & Advertising Agency