Sadly, the answer is YES... Read on to discover the truth about what it takes to make your site rank in the Top 10 of the major search engines.

Dear Friend,

    What I'm about to say may hurt your feelings, but it's time someone tells you the truth:

    The majority of what you have learned about search engine optimization and link building from so-called gurus has been a LIE.

    Since 1995, I have helped many of my private clients drive large ammounts of traffic and leads to their Web sites by achieving high rankings in the major search engines.

    Thanks to trusting clients I have had actually performed more than two-hundred successful SEO campaigns in the past three years alone!

    I have TONS of experience and have generated hundreds of top search engine rankings for myself and for my customers.

    Now... please understand... I'm not bringing this up to brag. But merely to let you know that I can help YOU have this same success.

    I am here to tell you, it is time to set the record straight...

    If you hear another "SEO Expert" say ANY of the following... RUN!

    I could go on and on about what innocent prospects hear when inquiring about how they can get more traffic to their site by ranking better in the search engines...

    BUT I Won't...

    For example, the majority of site owners today still think that adding keywords to their Meta Tags will actually help their search engine rankings!

    Maybe, you have been told this also...

    The truth is that, while potentially useful to describe your page contents to a search engine, they have no appreciable effect on actual search engine rankings.

    There is so much bad information being taught today regarding "search" you really have to be careful who you follow.

    Okay... Brett... So how do I get my site to rank well?

    First off... You need to know that each of the major search engines have their own ranking algorithm and there could be more than 300 factors that are evaluated but lets make this simple for you to understand.

    There are about four main factors that are important today, but in this article I only have time to cover one of them.

    The Four Major Ranking Factors Are:

    1. On-Page Optimization (page's title, text, internal linking, topical theme, prominence & proximity, etc.)

    2. Off-Page Optimization (incoming anchor text, incoming document/link theme/relevancy, etc.)

    3. Trust (domain age, historical data, topical theme, trust score relevance)

    4. Filtering (growth profile, duplicate content, spam detection, LSA, registrar/DNS/IP, etc.)

    Now that you have a brief overview of the major ranking factors, let's focus on an Off-Page Optimization ranking factor:

    Link Building/Link Popularity

    Did you know that when quality, relevant sites link to a page on your site you may be able to see an increase in your search engine rankings?

    In fact... Google publicly answers the question that so many people have on their mind:

    Question: How can I improve my site's ranking?

    Answer: "In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages."

    Source:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34432

    If you want to see just how powerful text links are then head over to Google and do a quick search for "Click Here".

    What site is at the top of the search engine results and why?

    The top site is the download page for Adobe Acrobat Reader because so many sites linked to this page with the text of "click here" or something similar.

    So now that you understand how important incoming one-way links are what you need to do is begin focusing on getting high-quality/topically relevant sites to link in to your site's relevant pages!

    Keep in mind that the off-page factor link building is just one of the major ranking factors the search engines evaluate today.

    Use this information to help announce your blog or site to the world!

To Higher Rankings,

Brett T. Smith

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