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The bulk of the high rankings in search engines come from off page factors. Once I have my content on my web pages, there are a few different ways that I approach search engine ranking. There’s SEO and then there’s traffic. It just depends on how you look at it. If I look at traffic, then I will have a tendency to lean a little bit towards social media. Some of the social media websites will drive traffic to your website not necessary on SEO terms.

This is what I learned from these podcast interviews. I use to post links in directories, but I shy away from them now. I’ll still probably use some of the top ones, then cross my fingers that I’ll get traffic from them. It hasn’t really shown the return that I thought it would bring. But if I’m doing directories, I tend to go for the niche ones.

I have software that finds high PR websites and approach my link building by using that tool. I take a look at the competition and I see where their links are coming from and I’ll try and do the same exact thing.

I’ll look at my keyword list and see which ones are competitive. Now I’ll pick which ones I’ll be going after. When you rank in the search engines it cost you your time and money. I’ll take a look at that to see if the time is worth it. Then I’ll go over to my website and see how it is set up and do some testing. This is the way I’ll find out which of the keywords work best for me. If you take the time to implement a good plan, you’ll do well.

Go for the longer tailed keywords first. Try and rank well with them. Every little bit helps when you’re finished with your project.

I do exactly what the competition is doing. It’s pretty hard to find out, but there are pieces of software out there now that will help you with this task. Now I’ll link from the same places they are linking from. Sometimes it has to do with people. So I try and become friends with the same people they are friends with and see about doing some kind of joint venture.

I’ve seen the competition setting up a bunch of web sites that help their ranking. They use some sort of Web 2.0 properties to rank higher. Now you can see how much work you will be in for to out rank them. When my research is done, I’ll see that I’ll need x amount of links to gain their top stop and go after it.

I enjoy writing articles for my website. When I publish my articles to the directories, I don’t use them all; I’ll just use the top ones. It’s relaxing for me to drive traffic to my website using articles because many times people will use them and put them up on their website or put the article in an eZine. This helps me out with my high rankings in the search engines, because they always post a link going from their website to yours.

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