Yeah, agreed with charlesxyz. SEO tricks can help to increase traffic and page rank.Thing is you should work on various factors of SEO to get your site rank & traffic well in the search engines. For that, you should link your site to various sites. Once you get a good number of backlinks, concentrate on certain aspects in your site like updating the content regularly etc., And other than basic SEO techniques,
word of mouth marketing is the best way to promote any web site.
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