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A very good article you should read: http://www.timous.com/en-us/3.ats

Regards,
Laurie.

Techniques with the most influence tend to contain measurable SEO factors. Everything else is on-par with tarot readings. Since you imply you have vast knowledge... you should know what the measurable factors are and also know that no single technique contains the "secret sauce".

But for me its site architecture and conversion funnels and not so much focus on getting "noticed"

LOL those techniques will certainly 'get you noticed". But I am not wrong at all, you achieve longevity and optimize your sites potential via Relevance, say that 3 times. Good luck and don’t forget to let us know how it all works out for you and any clients that participate.

Edit: If you would like to learn more about relevance there is a nice post over at http://www.huomah.com/search-engines/le … n-seo.html

You only use black hat tactics if you need a seasonal site up, one that needs to be number one for a couple days, possibly weeks.  When I used to do black hat, the longest I kept a site in the top ten was just over a month.  Search engines, like google, usually spot the site quicly and penilize it severely.

try running across a cricket pitch during an international match if you want to get noticed.

"Get noticed" is such a poor term for your question - get noticed by whom? SE?, customers?, your mother-in-law?

You say you are very experienced - I suspect it is rather a trollish question.

I have several situations where I have top 10, even number one spots that have remained that way for YEARS - simply by doing the basics properly - and I think the good fortune of having just a couple of govt. sites linking to mine and having a very old domain name.

Timous wrote:

what techniques have you as individuals have used and deemed most influencal?

by creating something original of value that's in demand

PS. nice looking site Timous...sharp!

well, to think that there's 1 way to get most out of it, is just the total opposite of the truth ... you need a lrge variation of links etc, that's when google will notice that you're for real, let's say there's 1 way that's more effective then most others, well, if you would focus on that oner alone ... it will loose it's effectiveness ... so, then what? change ! constantly keep adding more tactics to the game !

Search Engine Optimization requires dedicated mind work and patience. Though, there are (may be) some easy ways to let your website noticed but you have to structure them well and work cautiously. 

•Link exchanges/ Inbound links from relevant and high PR websites
•Use original and good content with targeted keywords in your pages that is informative for users and useful for search engine but avoid Spamdexing
•Start PPC advertisements like Google AdWords & Yahoo Search Marketing
•Participation in most relevant and quality forums & Blogs or try to create your own blog.

DON wrote:

there's a lot of ways to draw traffic to your site. The right keywords and keyword phrases and where  there placed on your pages. But the biggest  traffic will come from directories and other forms like these.I submitted to about 50 different directories all individually. If you get sucked into one of these will submit you into 200 directories you're wasting your time.  You need to submit to them individually in the categories that you qualify for. My site  is fairly new. When I was first recognized by Google in the beginning in December My Alexia  rating was 28 million as of yesterday I am at  567,287
so I must be doing something right. I really have to thank my host. 
their is over 100 million Web sites on the Internet if you're not in the top 1 percent unite to find yourself on the first two pages Google.That's where all the free traffic is.
Here are some suggestions. Some other directories I've applied to  and have gotten good traffic
Most people know about  DMOZ  but he can take anywhere from three months to years to get into.

Make  sure you submit your site to all the major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and so on

Here some quick ones and their free
www .dmegs. com 
SearchSight
www .altavista .com
clusty. com                                     
aol. com                                       
gigablast. COM                                 
www .altavista. com                           
/www .alltheweb. com                             
go. com (Yahoo)                                 
search .netscape. com (AOL)                     
www .amfibi. com 
www .abacho.co. uk                                 
www .ulysseek. com     
www .aardvarktravel. net
some of these sites lik  dmegs. com and searchsight place A picture of your homepage on the site.
aardvarktravel also has a forum just like this one.
now hear is something I just discovered a couple weeks ago it's called Yahoo answers. it's another forum
but not just any forum.  As you probably know some of the search engines like ASK do not take submissions they have to find you through directories and other web sites. when I started going  on Yahoo answers three weeks ago
I would just interested in answering  questions and have people look at my site. couple days ago I was looking through my traffic stats and Low and behold there was  ASK  and about four other directories that I never even applied to.
most of this information came from my Web host.
I hope this helps you out it sure help me out.

Don

NO you do not need to submit your site to search engines. Don, would you please stop suggesting time wasting tasks.