The greatest thing about getting high ranking positions in the major search engines is that it's 100% free. This is also the reason why it's difficult to attain the top positions in markets outside of very tight niches.

Search engine optimization can seem a very complicated process and if you want to make it that way, you can. You can spend a lifetime studying the search engine logarithms and every little keyword trick to position your website higher, but the problem is - the major search engines, like Google, keep changing the rules.

Anything I write here may not even apply 6 months from now but what I have learnt from my own experience, getting top search engine placement is a simple process. That's right - Simple!

Simple does not mean that you do not have to do any work. Like most of my other online strategies I have to work hard to gain top placements. Also my experiences apply to only Google. I really don't care about the others at this point as Google provides high quality traffic and the lions' share of it too.

I have proven through my own methods that only two things matter - 1. The title of your page. 2. The backlinks to your sites.

I would even go as far to say that the title does not even matter all that much. The backlinks are the things that drive you up the search engines more than anything else. If you concentrate on this area above all others, you will do well.

When I refer to backlinks, I mean one way backlinks. Reciprocal linking used to be the main thing but I have found that this strategy has lost much of the power it would have had a few years ago. I still use reciprocal linking BUT my main concern are links from site where I do not have to link back.

A backlink with your keyword phrase in the linkback text is worth it's weight in gold.

I have taken many of my sites to the top of Google with numerous highly competitive keyword phrases. I have not optimized the main content of the pages, nor have I messed with the title much either, other than to put some keywords in the six word title tag.

So it can be done, and it works. If I could put images in this article I could show you the top postions that I have achieved. Feel free to get in touch with me and I can show you proof.

Apply the simple process of getting one way backlinks in a niche market and the strategy becomes all the more powerful and rewarding.

You can believe that search engine optimization is for the elite only, and never get started. Or, take the jump now and do some testing for yourself. You will find that the only things that search engine experts are doing that you aren't is putting in the hours. There is nothing complicated about it!

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