I need to increase traffic without a long therm SEO

I'm not going on a long therm SEO, my readers are. I've gone long therm before, it is time and health consuming, give results, but not great results, it's better to post quality and unique content, advertise the site and let people do your SEO, than sit in a chair 24/7 for just keep writing and trying to find dofollow sites to make backlinks with your keywords. I'll go for the 80/20 rule, but gonna change it a little, I think it should be 60/40, cause I already made a goal of writing 5 articles a day. Long therm SEO is something that readers should make, not the webmaster, in this part, the webmaster should only post good quality and unique content. In other words, it should be natural. Anyway, I'm not really trusting Google anymore, I can't let them point the finger at my business and decide what I'm doing or not doing right, so they would penalize me, I would lose traffic, customers and money, I've done that before and it brought me bad times. Most of my marketing plan goes for Social Media, like Facebook and engaging with people at forums. But now I'm also looking for people to exchange links with me.

In shortly: it doesn't I'm leaving SEO, I want it to come naturally, meanwhile I'll write articles, advertise and interact with people at Facebook, so people start liking me and my blog, I'm building an identity.
This is not about getting in 1st, but about helping people and engaging with customers, if I get in 1st, that means I deserved it.

That's my point of view.

I started using a service in July (JustRetweet) and I saw an increase of 303% in organic traffic in 60 days. My posts average 77 social shares (I did the math the other day when submitting my content to a big "content farm" site).

I am a big fan of Derek Halpern of Social Triggers and he is the one that pushes the 80/20 rule and he's done well with it. When I say promotion, I am not just saying tweet it and share it on LinkedIn/Facebook, but do some blogger outreach, guest posting (not just for SEO purposes), blog commenting, etc. I reached out to a big online newspaper based in Vegas, showed them my past posts (with the social proof of the social shares) and they approved me to be a writer. My first post with them will be next week.

Also, I reached out to Business2Community.com (500k UVs per mo) and was approved to syndicate my content there as well. I will also guest post there, too. Is it hard to get accepted there? I am not sure, but I did mention the social shares I am getting and that could have played a part. Of course, they have to approve my content before it is published on their site. I just got the word yesterday that I was approved. Another blogger/podcaster I follow just got approved there (a few weeks ago) and his traffic has "soared".

So by promotion I mean sharing it on the social sites, blog commenting (for SEO purposes and connections), blogger outreach and guest posting. Promotion is always overlooked.

My feeling on blogging is every business should be doing it. It can generate leads tomorrow, next week and for years to come. It also work 24/7/365. Eventually, long term, it should be your best selling tool. Building a blog with evergreen content is building an asset that'll work for years.

With that being said, I blog a lot about social media, obviously not evergreen. I do blog about retention, website copy (most important part of a website in my opinion) and other evergreen content.

Yes, content marketing is very time consuming, but it's a powerful asset. Put in the work now, it'll pay off later. If you're serious about this business, you should be creating content. No questions asked. I plan to start doing videos with each blog post and am considering starting a podcast.

Social media and PPC(Pay Per Click) is the best way to increase traffic.

It's much more than that. An example is getting your articles published on related blogs.
Your really have to dig deeper into the topic of article syndication to do it properly.

Follow the Main Forum and Alexa is one of the best.

Dan