One of the latest fad among social networking has been the use of Twitter ,which mainly uses the concept of microblogging.Infact once you have created a twitter id, and you click the "Home" option,you will be directed to a page which says "What are you doing?". Also,through twitter,we can follow people and also allow other people to follow you. Each entry that we make in twitter is known as a "tweet".And all the people who are using/logged in twitter are known as "tweeple".Also if people who follow you feel that your tweet is useful/informative ,they can retweet it and make it inturn visible for their followers.

From the Search Engine Optimization(SEO) point of view,most people use twitter to widely increase traffic to their sites.If you can tweet regular updates regarding your business or organization,your clients can also be up-to-date with all the happenings.Additionally you can drive immense traffic only if there are many followers to your twitter id. In other words twitter can be utilized as a Search Engine Marketing(SEM) tool.

However posting any links in twitter ,though can increase traffic to your site will not add to the Page rank of your site as all the links posted in twitter are by default "nofollow".

Increasing website traffic is one of the most important and tedious tasks for those maintaining their own websites.A thread was started on this topic in the forum: forums.seo.com.We had posted a query in this discussion on Nov11th regarding how to convince people to give backlinks to your sites.

A response is posted on the same day by the member "Brainerd Minnesota".Check it out to know how to obtain relevant backlinks.

The above discussion can be viewed at forums.seo.com/showthread.php?t=3825

The latest ongoing discussions in one of the best seo forum is to what extent does participating in yahoo answers helps one to increase traffic or even backlinks to the site .

Several people have commented on the above giving different opinions.But one of the most effective answers is by one of the members “Sweely” posted on Jan 9th.This member has given a link to another posting of his in the same forum.That posting gives a clear picture on how to use the yahoo answers effectively.

Check the thread at forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1618179#post13363013

Keywords-a very important part of SEO.Choosing the right keywords is a crucial aspect of SEO to get your site optimized.In case we focus less while choosing the keywords, we may not get the desired traffic
to our site.Also ensure that while selecting the keywords of a site,check its competition and popularity using the popular and free Google Adwords Keywords tool.Here is a scenario where the SERP(Search Engine Result Page) for the keywords is good but the site does not have sufficient traffic.Read through this posting forums.webconfs.com/t2651-good-serp-but-no-traffic-.html

Link development has morphed into traffic development people. Stop going after the exclusive 146th listing on the tenth page of an unrelated site’s reciprocal links section thinking you’re going to fool a good engine into thinking that means you’re worth something.

Stop aiming for the engines and aim for real, live human beings. Aim for obtaining traffic and not backlinks. Aim for obtaining attention and not pagerank. Stop aiming for the affections of a mathematical computation and aim for commendations from breathing individuals.