The results are in from our most recent YoungEntrepreneur.com poll! Over the past month we’ve been asking you “What was the best thing that you’ve ever done for your website?”

It’s been great to see the responses from our readers. Here are the top three responses:

1) Focus on Social Networking

“Twitter (and networking in general…)! I just started my site a couple months ago and have found a lot of great people to give me feedback on it through Twitter. It’s amazing how many people out there genuinely want to help. Follow @JuniorBiz P.S. I like the new look!”

“Stumbled it. It took 8 seconds and got me 40,000 initial hits and started the ball rolling for a ton of press pickup.”

“Social media campaign. It doesn’t matter how great your content is or how great looking your site is. If nobody knows about it, it all means nothing.”

“I’m a whole lot newer than most to the SEO aspect of things but just by putting up a blog on twitter I’ve now networked more in a few weeks than I did all last year. I’ve had more hits on all of my pages as a result.”

“I would definitely have so say using Twitter. I access Twitter from my webtop several times a day. I use it to communicate with friends, promote a new blog post/website entry and also to educate myself on my topic. I have gained quite a bit of traffic just by using Twitter.”

“I would agree that these days, there is a ton of power in tying your website in with your Twitter account. Weekly digests, if you are at all prolific on Twitter, provides a nice easy and valuable post to your readers.”

“Social Media”

“Built a social network of almost 350 podcasters from 16 countries at PodcasterWhosWho.com.”

“I re-established my site, which used to be primarily content based, to have a social networking aspect to it. This made the user feel as though they are more in tuned with the site and usability went up drastically.”

2) Focus on SEO

“Spending a couple grand on an SEO-friendly blogging platform that allowed us to get on the first page of Google on keywords our regular website was not getting. This has the side benefit of allowing me to spread our blog posts on our social networks, thereby increasingly our recency, relevancy and reach.So maybe this doesn’t qualify because it didn’t directly involve our website. However, our main site does serve as a content source for the blog.”

“For my website I rewrote the code in compliant XHTML. My search engine listing took off on Google and I get alot of business that way now. I also added way more pictures of work I had completed (for my web portfolio). Lastly, what helped was uploading free articles.”

“I would say re-launching a cleanly designed website that has been created using the latest Web 2.0 standards such as CSS, and W3C code compliancy. This has been the best makeover for me and it lays the foundation for future search engine optimization success plus a host of other great Web 2.0 opportunities.”

“The best thing I did was come up with a regular posting schedule and stick to it. I found that if I kept up regular posts traffic gradually increased – especially search engine traffic due to all the new content.Regular content also kept visitors coming back as they new there would always be something fresh to read”

“Could not agree more. Content is king, and I’m not saying that because I have a company that writes content for sites. It is BECAUSE content is so important that I started one.”

“Got #1 on Google for 3 of target keywords.”

“Posting articles/blogging seems to be working for the sites I run. After that always making sure SEO is good and trying to garner some good backlinks from other related websites”

#3) Focus on Design

“The best thing I have done was a total re-design of my blog. My old design worked well in the past, but over time (after learning many trends and web design techniques) I became aware of better ways of doing things. The new design allows for much better SEO, better community interaction and a flexible, robust back-end.”

“I’ll have to go with others who said that overhauling the design of their site was the best thing they did. I recently gave up and purchased a Premium WP theme. It cost $70, but it really helps me differentiate my site – and, more importantly, it shows my visitors that I am serious enough about it to invest into a Premium theme.”

“The best thing I ever did was move my blog from a free template to a paid template. The template needed a lot more customization than the free template to get the look and features working properly but it was totally worth it! You get what you pay for I suppose… ”

“Testing my site traffic and redesigning my site based on the result.”

Rounding out the rest of the suggestions were:

Find a website co-founder

“I haven’t done it yet but about to do is find my website a co-founder.”

Outsource

“Hmmm, well the best thing I’ve ever done related to websites is outsource the creation of a network of websites. I got a 6x return after outsourcing and spending a total of less than 3 hours on the network as a whole. I won’t share figures, but for my first outsourcing experience is was quite encouraging. ”

Self-Branding

“”Self Branding” via (visual/Audio) i.e. Youtube, blogs, etc… I’ve learned the hard way that in business People join People, not opportunities. Put another way; Opportunities= Nice looking Car, People/Sponsor= Engine. Without an engine, you’re left with a beautiful car to look at thats parked/goes nowhere! With that said, people want to know the REAL you and who they are getting in business with. So having a video/audio helps because they get to see what and who they are getting involved with…”

Google Adwords

“Google Adwords”

Email Marketing

“The biggest thing I’ve done for my website wasn’t really done on my website. I bought a MailChimp account to send mass marketing emails to members to learn about different events going on over the weekend. I really do need to keep the content fresh though. I’m working on adding photo galleries to the site, but I have news articles up and going and not alot of content to add to it.. :-/”

Focus on Quality

“Posting real useful articles and information that change people lives.”

Thank you everyone for participating! Stay tuned next week for a brand new poll!