Why not? And if you don't want untargeted traffic then i think not even a single social site can help you.

Still if you are not satisfied then play in relevant forums and work on banner advertising.

There are many effective ways to drive targeted traffic. Find some relevant blogs and comment on them but make sure the blog is dofollow. Get some high traffic relevant forums and start participating...

Well, twitter is a fast growing social networking site which has got the potential to boost your business effectively. You just need to be active on it and keep tweeting your site links Re-tweet...

In my opinion, reciprocal linking can cause you loss of visitors, so you better use the free techniques like article submission, social bookmarking, forum signatures, RSS feed directory submission,...

Indeed, if you have something worth in your website you will definitely rank not in 30 but top 10 results very soon. If you go for SEO you still have to wait few months to get top 30.

Here is another one : http://www.9dir.com/main.php

Yes, you are right high PR has nothing to do with traffic. To drive the traffic you need to work on off-page activities and use all the promotion techniques. At last, traffic is what concerns for any...

yes definitely, if you provide good information to the visitors they would come back for new and updated info. This way you will get long term visitors back. And remember that more than new, the old...

Completely agree with you, for better ranking you don't need high PR, you just have to build relevant links and the site has some quality. Also, i have noticed that Google nowadays is giving...

Linking to inner pages will increase you the link popularity of those inner pages.

Thanks for the reply... But, how should i find those country specific niches? Also, are the niche directories better than general directories?

Like global audience, i want to target local audiences via local search engines. Could anyone please suggest me, how can i do that?

I think instead of linking only to homepage, link each page so that every web page will get similar boost.

what are suggesting, man? you are saying maximum keywords, there should be some keyword density or else it will be consider as spam.

Its so simple, without optimizing a website for search engines you can top it. To get good results and output from search engines you need to work on on-page and off-page activities. Thats why the...

People think that to get noticed by visitors high PR is needed, but there are many successful bloggers which have proved that there is no need to have high PR. They are successful only because of the...

But i have heard that now google is no more giving importance to backlinks.

Yes, google penalizes sites which are copying content from others sources. But, i have also seen some sites having duplicate content and still having good page rank. How?

Yes, there is no fastest and quickest way to get top 10 ranking, you need to work hard to get on first page. I read that article but i am not satisfied with it.

Definitely blogs are the great way to drive lots of traffic to the sites. It has been proved by bloggers and search engine specialists that blogs are the best source to drive traffic to your...

Really great tips, canadafred.

Use the "All in One SEO Pack" plugin. It really helps in search engine optimization. Use short titles of about 4 to 9 words and include your main keywords in it....

I am not in a favor of buying links. I don't think it is worth to buy links. Previously, google had penalized many of the sites for the same reason. If you buy links you will have to face its...

I think both internal linking and external linking are equally important, as both of them helps to boost the ranking via anchor text.

Not only the link exchange, but every possible techniques should be used to promote your forum.

If your main target is to get visitors via search enignes then the best way is to work on on-page elements. If you want people to visit and become a member of your forum then you need to build some...

Cool search engine, it really helps to make a right decision, but shows less results. I think it needs improvement in showing decisions for any niche or topic.

For promoting your site in google, you need to work on both on-page and off-page activities. Along with that, keep you activities going as SEO is an on-going task and needs to be continued in order...

Checkout the following link Google's Search Basic:
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134479

As per Google, search engines are not case sensitive, but search is...

ok, using alexa toolbar does effects your website visitors. But, can anyone tell me how exactly the toolbar works to attract the visitors for your site?

hmm Google is still updating the PR of sites. Two days before my friend was having PR0 and suddenly today he got PR2 for this blog. Completely agree with ChiefLee, PR doesn't mean anything to me...

Please don't provide half information, you didn't stated how search engines will spider the site on their own? Please answer it.

RSS directories are same like web directories. In RSS directories there are categories and you just need to find the exact category and submit your RSS feed URL. In some directories only .xml type...

completely agree with bob and cscgal, PR are meaningless, but they have much value for advertisers. Basically, bob is right, PR are done to find out the sites selling links. I have noticed after...

Its so simple, you will get the traffic only when your viewers will know that you got something really interesting and thrilling stuff. To do this RSS feeds is the best and easier way to ping your...

But, i have heard that Dmoz is very much important as it provides search results for many of the popular search engines and online portals. I too have submitted to Dmoz but didn't got accepted nor...

Well, submitting to search engines can't be said as a waste of time as search engines are the only systems that provides you benefit for long term. Saying about backlinks, you should really take this...

If you want people to come visit your forum and join it, then you need to work on the content of the forum. Build some nice contents as it is the only thing that attracts visitors. Also, to give...

Nicely explained by Mr. Fred, Just work on the key phrases b'coz keywords are the main factors that gives visibility to your website and improves your SERP rankings.

Thanks for the link, bob. But i personally think that directories are only good for building backlinks, it can't bring you the expected traffic.