[deanhills]

Although I can see how SEO like this can make a difference to traffic, I can't help wonder whether it can only be temporary when the rest of the Website doesn't catch the attention of the SEO audience for the longer term. Like I've noticed at one of the Forums where I'm posting that a really great SEO specialist who owns the Forum has the ability to get enormous traffic through his SEO efforts. We then get LOADS of spam posts from an audience we're not really interested in giving hosting to, and of those we have almost zero members who are really interested for the longer term. We haven't really gained anything from this effort, as he does this sporadically, and by the time he does it again there is almost zero traffic.

I'm almost certain if one focuses all of one's attention on making the Website as attractive as possible and focus only on long term interest - and therefore audiences that are naturally suited to the Website that the results will grow by itself. SEO can become artificial at a point and be very counter-productive. Instead of opting for huge numbers of traffic, rather network quality links with people who are genuinely interested in the product.