SEO - Help

[Reeves1]

Could someone offer be advice on the best sites to use which are also FREE

[mattsaw]

Could someone offer be advice on the best sites to use which are also FREE

To use for what exactly?

[Kev Jaques]

Google Search ;)

[Reeves1]

sorry didn't really explain

to get traffic to my website and blog

i am a proprietor of a small finance company

[Danny@BFC]

do you want more incoming traffic or to work on SEO? they are not neccesarily the same thing.

for instance, if you think of all the questions that someone who may use your services may have, something like "I have 10k to invest in shares, what sector has been the most consistent performer over the last 25 years" and so on..you could write blog posts answering all these questions....join a finance forum etc where people are asking these questions and then post a link to your blog answering those questions, giving you credibility as an expert and highlighting your other services (Bringing in Targeted traffic and potential customers)...

Or..you could put all your efforts simply into "SEO" and see how you go, if so I'd do LOTS of reading up on exactly what SEO is (if thats possible!?), read all the google stuff, seomoz and hobo stuff and find as many blogs and test's etc to read as you can....and at the end of all that you will most probably be more confused than when you started or obsessed with SEO, neither of which are going to help your finance company IMO.

back to the original question, there are no sites as such that will help your SEO efforts other than provide information, not for free anyway..these are plenty of tools that may help, google keyword tool, market samurai, google site search, yahoo and hundreds of various toolbars... id do LOTS of reading, keyword research, article and blog post writing, make them original and informative/helpful and hopefully others will link to it in turn bringing you even more traffic.

so..and goes without saying this is just my opinion, I'm most definately not an SEO expert as my website shows! I'd do the basics (for the search engines) as outlined above and try to learn as much as you can over time....whilst making an interesting and informative blog/site aswell.

there are experts out there who spend a great deal of time testing various things ref SEO, and there are also "experts" that might get you to number one in google for 3 weeks and then banned for 3 months!

just my thoughts....wish you the best in your SEO quest!

Danny

[mattsaw]

I posted this a while ago, it's worth having a read if you're not sure where to start - http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=133114

[saadali]

Check yahoo anwer. first search for the questions related to your site then try to answer in expert manner. In the source box give the url of your site.

[ruby.mein]

Social bookmarking sites such as delicious, digg, reddit, stumbleupon, slashdot and mixx are great source of traffic.

[supperwood001]

Go to Yahoo.com and ask the question, or Google searched.

[saadali]

Search the social community site relating to your niche and post it the forums and blogging sections.

[erosraino]

Anyone know what is spam site? what dose it mean?