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10 Indirect Ways To Get To The Top Of Search EnginesChris Towland There are millions of web sites trying to get listed in the top 20 spots of the major search engines. That amounts to an awful lot of competition and even after spending hours and hours on Search Engine Optimization techniques you may still not be able to achieve a high ranking for your competitive keywords! However, if it proves too difficult for you to get high rankings directly, there are still ways that you can get to the top.......indirectly! So, just how do you do this Firstly, look up the top 20 web sites on the major search engines under the keywords and phrases people would find your web site. If you could either advertise on those sites, or get a link from those sites to yours then that would be nearly as good as having a top listing yourself. The most expensive way to do this would be to buy ad space on those web sites. However, if you dont want to spend any money to do this, you could use the ten strategies below. These strategies may not of course apply to every web site but Im sure therell be at least two or three that you can make use of straight away....
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