So what you say might answer the first question, but not the follow up one. Well, your "e.g. on GOOGLE:" answers it, but the fact that you use google for that example already shows that there really isn't any way around that. He wasn't asking how to improve ranking. He was asking for alternatives to google search traffic. (Unless I got that wrong)
But I just told you. Social. Linkedin. Vimeo. YouTube. Other things. Sure you don't get the "instant win" of having a big player link to you. But you also are not so dependent on ONLY that big player.
It's kind of like the difference between being discovered by an A&R department of a record label or going the indie route like Ben Haggerty.
How do you go from "people won't discover my own site under google's new algorithm" to no one on linkedin and other places will ever discover any articles linking to my site without google?
We do post things on LinkedIn and Facebook, however we get only a tiny fraction of the traffic that we get from Google. In addition, the traffic from Google seems to convert to paying customers at a higher rate--not sure why yet.
So what you say might answer the first question, but not the follow up one. Well, your "e.g. on GOOGLE:" answers it, but the fact that you use google for that example already shows that there really isn't any way around that. He wasn't asking how to improve ranking. He was asking for alternatives to google search traffic. (Unless I got that wrong)