What other options are there?

Interesting question! But to be honest with you, lot of people advice on advance link building techniques which is mostly useful for big brands. For small brands and websites we need to implement some basic techniques while need to keep in mind the penalty factors.

Well... Start with reading some posts here or in other SEO forums, there is NO PERFECT SEO strategy... You should try different things, try Social Bookmarking sites, Forums, directories, etc. And don't forget to post new CONTENT often!!!

Content is king! You need a website with intriguing content first, then worry about your link building, strategic partnerships. Start with on-page SEO first:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/...rter-guide.pdf

Press releases are a great place to get backlinks and it is free. Try prlog.org, bignews.biz or freepressindex.com - Prlog.org will list your press release on google in just a few hours. I have recieved over 200 hits a day from one press release

Anymore, do you suggest the paid versions or the free versions?

You are newbie in SEO right? So how did you come to a conclusion that your On page is done properly. Do you know that by doing proper On page, your website can easily rank in search engines without creating any backlinks?

I would advise you to cross check your On page including your website content, which is indeed the main part of your website. Make your website content unique and engaging too. Once done, you can then switch to Off page SEO techniques.

It's all stupidly simple - the hard part is doing it. You have a range of 1 (small business) to 30 (corporates) organic visitors per $1 of spend - how you spend it is up to you.

Business SEO
- backlinks
- press releases
- social media
Technical SEO
- hosting
- product counts
- architecture
Bought SEO
- ppc
- ppm

So PPC will be 2 visitors per $1 ($0.50 per click), Business SEO is time based but you can use automation tools - if you go above the range Google with punish you for it, then Technical SEO is the fast way but also the most expensive.

Then you have the channels for direct sales orders, organic 26% - ppc 22% - email %12 - social media 1%. Social media works for branding and indirect sales. If you have a content site you have many more problems. So the best is to combine all methods - but that is not what most people do. Always remember Google generate 70% of their revenue via Adwords, which then brings in to question - do you trust what they are telling you!

So let's say you can earn $40,000/yr or $22/hr. If you spend 50hrs per month doing Business SEO it cost you $1,100. Now we know some consultants who had $2,100/mth clusters and ranked a new 30,000 product site first page Google next to the top retailers with short tail keywords and no Business SEO - Google thought it was a $multi-million business but just used Magento CE & a Themeforest theme. The problem is that people think time is cheap - but it is an indirect cost - which reduces your visistors per $1. That is SEO.

For best SEO practice I will recommend you learn how SQL works. It will be your good start to learn best SEO techniques.

Guest posting still can be effective if you get them from strong domains. Matt Cutts will have you believe that link building is ineffective.

Get some good PBN links if you can. Long-term wise, keep pumping out good content that will get shared and promote through social media.

forget seo thas in the past, it does not work now

look just do a great blog, you will get their

tell folks about you, make them love you

their is no way we can fool Google now

regards

JIm

In my point of view unique content are really effective for SEO. So you need to think about high quality content. You can also try to create links on social bookmarking sites, high quality forums. Web 2.0 links are also effective.

if youd like to try guest blogging then go do it. It's not really too bad. A lot of people are abusing it, that's why it's being mentioned like that but they put their guest posts in such bad sites, so that makes it really obvious. Find good trafficked sites, guest post there, boom, you have a great link(s) and free traffic you can turn into subscribers and eventual buyers