The first key is your website and its content. Search engines are always looking for 'trusted sites' that they have indexed in the past because they know it is a highly informative, unique and key word rich site. In order to make the most of the search engines, you must have solid, unique content in you website. It must be information that people will find valuable, and it also must be key word rich. If you are not providing theses key features, your site will get lost in cyber space, and you will not find the traffic to sustain it.



The second key is to always be updating and adding more relevant information. The more new and useful content you provide will get you site noticed by the search engines. In fact, the search engines are always looking for new pages that contain solid info to index. Make sure when adding to your site that you keep if key word rich so you can be easily found when people search. Adding 2-3 new articles a week will keep your site fresh. Search engines like sites that are always updating and adding good, solid information. But remember, you must keep the quality very high, and relevant.

The third key is keyword research, finding what words and phrases people are searching for, and those key words that do not have a lot of competition. There are a lot of free tools for you to use, but be careful, some are not accurate, and imagine that if they are free, there will be a lot of people using them, and seeing the same key word phrases. Make sure you use a tool that not only gives you the search counts, but also the strength of the competition and will let you dig deep to find those key words with virtually no competition.

The fourth key is a tried, tested and proven method that works. Write articles in your area of expertise and submit them to article directories. Doing all this by hand would be an enormous task, and would take days or weeks to do. There are some free article submitters that you can use, but if you can spend a couple dollars you can find automatic article submitters that can submit your article to thousands of directories with the touch of a button. Once again, just because you write an article and just because you have it submitted automatically, this won't guarantee that it will published. You must stay in the habit of submitting high quality, informative information that people are searching for.

The fifth key is to make most of your writing viral. Make sure you include that your article may be re-distributed or re-printed as long as the entire article remains unchanged, including the resource box.(the resource box at the need of your article is where you tell a bit who you are and direct people to your website, blog, affiliate site or where ever you want them to click. Ezine owners are always looking for more high quality information to use. Once your name starts to be recognized as an expert, you will have lots of people looking for them to reuse on their sites or ezines.

These are just a few, there are many more out there for you to use. just make sure that what ever method you use, that the information you are providing is of the highest quality possible. That is what will separate you from everyone else.