My Tip : (Which is probably suitable for the small online retailer, like myself)

Use the various techniques you have gained from above,
increasing your quality of keywords and meta descriptions etc.

I also like to look at the keywords my competitors are using and also the positioning of them on their page by using the view source tool, and then trying to better or beat them.

Also keep updating and changing your pages so the googlebot etc comes and checks you and relists you. you can see when it has last visited by clicking on the cached link at the bottom of the listing on google.

Some stats: in May 08 our site (www.justslate.co.uk) had 546 visitors best month of the year til then, then I started trying to increase it organically by using SEO tips in books and on the web etc instead of paying anyone, I am a scottish farmers son so very tight !! unless buying whisky. Last month July 08 our site had 931 visitors.

It is important to keep a track of the progress you are making and what you have done so you can see what works and what doesn’t.

My next move is to try and encourage more visitors to part with money on my site than just looking. I plan to do this by using promotions and special offers etc, also sell more sets of the product which offers the customer a discount or free units for buying more, also better sales patter on the descriptions etc should help. If I can increase my conversion rate from 3% of customers buying to 6% which does not sound alot but will double my turnover to £8K per month.

I want to increase both traffic to my site and also increase the actual sales from it.

Hope this helps the novices as I expect this will be seriously old hat to the posters on the forum.

Anyway, cheers !!

use social bookmarking

try to get stumbles for your website, my personal experience, stumbled traffic is quite genuine and targeted.

after stumble, digg, yahoo mywebs, google, del.icio.us, facebook and orkut.

dont go for directory submission or paid links its a waste with google’s 2008 PR policies

if still you dot get enough traffic then these networks might help ?

yahoo
adsense
kontera

Don’t ignore what’s in your back yard.

In terms of tactics there are still a lot of large sites and e-commerce sites that have no blogs as they still don’t understand the benefits of them. What 2008 will show with blogs is how social media integrates with each other to provide great results.

My tip for 2008. Make sure your site (or clients site) has plenty of ways for your visitors to promote the site via social media (Digg This! buttons, Add to del.icio.us etc.etc.) and then create “share-able” content. Link-able content and Linkbait is very good, but share-able is going to be better in 2008.

Whatever industry your business is in your website will benefit from starting a company blog written by employees. As well as providing unique fresh content for your site this will open up opportunities in terms of networking and trust building.

A well maintained company blog will produce nothing but good results for your website in 2008!