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The great thing about links is anyone can exchange links with other websites!  While very few have taken the time to learn the ins and outs of search enginge optimization, anyone can build strong relevant link partners for their site.  I am sure you've seen those ebooks that tell you the easy way to a top ten ranking is getting links.  Well this is actually true! 

Ok so your website is new and your google pagerank is a big fat 0!  No one wants to trade with your site because of your pagerank.  What do you then do?  The answer is directories.  Find and submit your site to as many directories relevant to your site as you can find.  Most will ask for a link back, but some won't!  Eventually you'll find enough places to submit your site and you'll get some pr to your site.  Once you get a pagerank of at least 2 or 3 then sites with similar pagerank will trade with you. 

So you've now submitted your site to a good handful of relevant directories, and you waited for the Google update.  You are amazed that you now have some pagerank.  Maybe it's only 2 or 3 but it is no longer a whopping zero!  You are excited and feel empowered.  You rush to check those rankings you been going after and to your disgust nothing has changed.  You're still ranked a mile from a top ranking.  Well hang in there, it only gets better with time if you stick with it.

In order to compete for a competitive keyword phrase, in my humble opinion, you need at least a pr5.  I have seen sites ranked very high for some big time keywords with a pr5.  So take your pagerank of 3 and look for other sites ranked 3 - 5.  Remember when you exchange links to add your keyword phrase in the linktext, this is very important.  The search engines use the link or anchor text to determine what your site is about.  If you have many links pointing to your site with 'baby toys', then the search engines will think your site is about baby toys, even if it has nothing to do with baby toys!  Most search engines are not yet smart enough to compare the linktext pointing to your site with your site content, but they are heading in this direction.

So just keep doing this tedious work of building your link popularity as it will pay off!  Little by little you will climb to a pr5 and above!  If you reach a pr5 and have included your targeted keyword phrases in the linktext of your directory submissions and link trades, then you should start to see some results.

You will of course need to learn some basic search engine optimization, but even a novice with strong incoming links can get those top rankings.  So keep at it and remeber that time is on your side.  You most likely will not get results over night, it will take time and patience, but results will come if you stick with it.