SEO techniques
Keyword research: (most overlooked step, but most important step). Do extensive keyword research. We use Google’s Keyword Tool that is free. You need to find what are the most looked up keywords and phrases for your niche. It is OK to target the most competitive because if you build it right, you will be blowing your competitors away.
Relative Keyword research: - Be sure that you have included many relative keywords in your pages meta as well. This is a huge deal with the algorithms today. It's one thing to be keyword stuffed, but you need to make sure you look at the relevant keywords too, this helps build PR.
Site Structure: - keywords must be in your URL, that is the best way for Google and other sites to see you and give you relevance. You will see many sites nowadays using dashes "-". This is the way search engines see a space and tells a word is being separated out. It helps in the site structure. This structure is putting a very high relevance and ranking on test and site.
Directory Submission: - This is an age old method that some have abandoned, but it still works. Remember, the objective here is to build traffic, so if you are seriously wanting it, put your link in as many places as possible.
Link Exchange: - Again, reciprocal link is not as highly rated, but it is still very effective. You need to exchange links with as many websites as humanly possible and for best results make sure they are RELEVANT!!!
Article Submission: - This has proven as of recent to be a great method to produce traffic. The goal here is to get both one-way links (on some sites) and traffic in an all-in-one step. Here's the key to writing good articles, you must spin every article your write. What this means is change the articles. There are many great article spinning software programs out there that I have used.