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If you want to promote your business without seo, that means you have to pay and you have to pay big. PPC or hire an seo company to do it for you or place as many ads as possible to drive traffic.

The best seo tip is to build a bevy of backlinks with the correct keyword anchor text, other than that content will get you the most exposure. The more interesting your information the more people it will draw, which will then cause a lot people to bookmark your site.

That's why people use wordpress as you said. It's a simple website maker. It has lots of useful themes and features that make useful for blogging and selling products or just getting information across to the public. Wordpress is the best blogging system out there currently.

Google analytics would be the most reliable way to get information about site and the type of visitors that visit and how often. I'm sure there are other programs you can pay for that you can use also. Just google seo tools.

It sounds like you might be expanding in the future and you need a lot of features, I didn't see any mention of Yahoo, a well known name and they offer many of the features your looking for. But for complete versatility, you might want to try magento, but you'll …

I'd say forever, DMOZ is notorius for not listing websites, not sure exactly what you need to do get listed. Not sure its important to be listed on the site as it once was.