It is not enough to simply add META tags and do submission of your site to a million search engine indexes and directories. The first promotion step in obtaining significant web visitor counts is to seek first-page search engine results. An early step is to build a great content-rich site. One of the last steps is the proper submission of your great site to the search engine or directory. In the middle is a step that is VITAL if you want to obtain front-page results, and most sites skim past this step because it is forgotten or too complex, but without it you are destined to be search engine fodder.

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Step 2 - Using Link Tracking, locate the links TO that URL

This will indicate possible sites that you will want as link partners as well once your site is registered. If these sites link to your competition, then you want them to also link to you! This is also done so that these potential link partners can be checked for META keywords that might be related to your site that were missed by your competition. Add these URL's to the URL list from Step 1 to be used in Step 3. You might also try putting the http:// in quotes and using Google (above). Note: the number and authority of the links to your site is a factor in determining how well your site will rank with some search engines. Popularity is good. Popularity with well respected sites is better. You will want to begin to develop links as soon as possible.

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On the subject of popularity -- we consider links vital to long-term search engine optimization and ranking. The objective is this: if you get a site to link to you then you gain popularity points. If that site has a lot of quality sites linking to it and it links to you, you get a lot of points, but if that site has few sites linking to it, you get only a few points. As such, a link from Microsoft.com would be worth more than a link from Bobspage.com. In essence, if enough quality sites link to you then your site becomes a quality site by association. So you want the best sites, not the most, to link to you. Likewise, if you link to other quality sites then your site is assumed to be a quality site by association. However, the sites must be covering the same topics as your linking page in both directions. All other links are minimal importance (or in the case of spam they are ignored or even a penalty). And do not bother to buy hundreds of URL's and cross link them. The search engines can locate them and filter them out faster than you can perform submission on these pages.