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***Be sure to read How To Get Top Google Rankings – Part 1 of 2***

Now let’s address some of the myths regarding getting top search engine rankings:

1. If an SEO expert approaches you saying that he can guarantee you will get the top ranking for your chosen keyword, laugh in his face (or at least your computer screen). I doubt it that any SEO expert owns SE, has control over them, thus he can’t guarantee any result. He can however assure you that he will use all his expertise to try to push your website to the top.
2. Pay $100 and some SEO expert will get you 100 links to PR 5-8 pages. Impossible! It costs an arm and a leg to get links to high-ranking pages, $50/month and up. Actually, there are only six ways to get links to high-PR pages:

1. 1. Buy them (very expensive – you will pay around $20 per year per link for PR2 links! – on 100 links that is $2,000 per year!)
   2. Talk them into putting a link on their site for free (!).
   3. Get them to enroll in your affiliate program.
   4. Provide them with unique content that they WANT to put on their sites.
   5. Put them on low PR pages and wait for the PR to rise.
   6. Have such a fantastic site that people voluntarily put links up and tell others about you.

3.  You can check the amount of links going to your or any website by using link:website in Google or Yahoo. Actually this command is broken and does not produce meaningful results. Let’s test it: I checked on Brad Fallon’s site (the founder of StomperNet) by typing in link:myweddingfavors.com. As of the time of this writing I got  180 links with Google and 508 with Yahoo. Which one do you think is more accurate? Take your pick.

You see the problem is that SE don’t want you to know how many links you have going to your site. Why not? Because the only reason you would need to know how many links you have is if you are doing SEO and SE’s are at war with SEO.

However, here is a Google hack that reveals the real story: type in to your browser the following search phrase, substituting your domain name details of course (Note that the first one does NOT include the dot com at the end).

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=.yourdomain.+-+www.yourdomain.com

So, what’s the best SEO strategy?

Have patience. Optimize your site. Make sure your code is clean. Double-check your meta tags, titles, and site content – it should be consistent with your theme.

Now become a content-generating factory. Be consistent. Post several times a week, every day would be even better. Post articles to directories. Do videos. Write press releases.

Soon you’ll have hundreds of pages of great content and thousands of links pointing to them.

And – voila! Gradually you will climb the SE up and up and up.

Once you have a bunch of good content on your site, start submitting it to website directories, like DMOZ and such. Here is a link to top 15 directories list published at dailyseoblog.com. Make sure you have TONS of GREAT content FIRST though or you will be wasting your effort.

Well, here ya go, kids. My list of Do’s and Don’t’s when it comes down to top Google or any other SE’s rankings.

I am looking for tips to add to my list! Get those brain cells going and add some in the comments below. As a bonus for your hard work, I will award the best SEO tip with a great business-building software.

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