Promoting your blog or website on social networking websites like Digg and del.icio.us should be an integral part of your Internet marketing campaign because it is the sure shot way of getting into the limelight within a few days. Get 2-3 articles or blog posts of yours featured on the first page of Digg every month and you are probably on your way to Internet superstardom. The effect is so great that even big websites like the NYTimes.com devise new methods to target visitors from such websites. Here is the link that good-humouredly tells you how to end up on the first page of Digg by fair or unfair means.

This link says that there is nothing special to be done in order to enable Google to crawl your Flash website.  But if you go through the link carefully it is following all the conventions of analyzing the keywords and the text that you use on your website.  You will need to include your keywords and key expressions on the Flash buttons, Flash banners and all those Flash components that you use to convey textual messages to your visitors.

You can also optimize your Flash website for Google by using less images and more text while creating your Flash presentations.  This way the Google crawler will have more text to crawl and analyze. Also make sure that you use hyperlinks judicially because now the hyperlinks present in your Flash components can be crawled too.

Once they are on your website or blog you have to first engage them, and then make all the important sections easily available. There must be very few unnecessary distractions. Vandelay Design tells you more about how to keep people on your website or blog for longer time.
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Inbound links are very important for your SEO efforts. They send you direct traffic and they also improve your search engine rankings. The search engines take inbound links from trusted and high-value blogs and websites into account while ranking your website or blog. But getting inbound links is a very time consuming process; people don’t just link to you: they should either know you or your link should add some value to their website. The best way to get inbound links is give reasons to them to link to you. For that you can have great content on your website, you can have resources, you can provide help or free software tools — something of great value and use. Nop5 Blog has a blog post titled How To Get Links Without Asking.

It isn’t all about getting traffic to your website or blog and I think anybody can do that with some hard work and strategy. The main strength of your website comes into existence when it turns those clicks — the people who visit your website or blog — into customers, regular readers or RSS subscribers. All your online marketing and traffic building efforts are going to fail if visitors leave your website or blog without doing something that you would like them to do. Click here to read how you can convert those clicks into customers.

Once you have your website and blog up and running you need targeted traffic to get the desired exposure. Many bloggers and web publishers use social media and bookmarking websites like Digg, del.icio.us and StumbleUpon to drive traffic in hordes to their web pages and blog posts but all these websites require lots of time, and you cannot, cannot means cannot, get the needed attention on these websites unless you’ve got friends there to promote your website. So what’s the solution. You can either spend a year haunting these websites and striking up friendships and voting for obscure links or you can use second-tier social media websites to push your links ahead. It’s easy to get quick exposure on the second-tier social media websites and in a post titled 2nd Tier Social Media Sites: An Overlooked Source of Traffic Steven Snell tells you how you can drive massive traffic to your website or blog using these websites.