How to improvise my referral traffic

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Samantha Christy Esthakkiar: Rephrased my query here, help me out!
  
  Though there was lot of answers across the internet for my query, still I was lagging to finding ways on how to improvise my referral traffic. ;
  
  Tired and tried lot of things as suggested by the people in seo community. Worked on all source/medium (Like forums, Guest Post, Social Bookmarking, Press Release, Social Media Sharing and Engaging). But Couldn't find much traffic, Why?
  
  Google is constantly updating its Algorithm, could not gain EMK ;
  
  Is there any other ways to improvise my referral traffic?
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  Edwin Jonk: I guess EMK stands for exact match keyword. This can be a high risk thing to pursue. Namely, if you are creating backlinks with exact match anchor text it can be seen as a spam signal. Meaning that the links you created might hurt your site. 
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  Samantha Christy Esthakkiar: +Edwin Jonk ;That's why using long tail keywords in phrases! I am working on that following Google policies.
  
  I am narrowing here my query, How to improve my referral traffic?
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  Edwin Jonk: Are people searching that long tail keywords?
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  Samantha Christy Esthakkiar: very few! that's the reason I am lagging in referral traffic. ;
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  Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:38:20 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/how_to_improvise_my_referral_traffic +Samantha Christy Esthakkiar
  
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  Samantha Christy Esthakkiar: Thanks for the reply the stephen oliver! ;
  +Edwin Jonk