Getting Ranked on the First Page

I have been marketing online for over a year now with little luck. I have done everything from promoting affiliate programs on traffic sites to making my own websites. That was all well and good. I started reading up on this subject of getting ranked on the first page of Google. One main mistake I was making was to promote affiliate programs directly with their pages. Now I have created a website just for promoting affiliate programs that work. However, I couldn't get any traffic, at not free traffic which is the most profitable. While reading up on the subject I kept running into this SEO products such as optimizing your site for Key words on your site. This is what I started working on. First, I had to pick a set of keys words that got enough traffic on google and didn't have a lot of competition. I did this for free on google, and I picked Stay at Home Mom's Business Opportunity I then had to go back and add those keywords on my website in different locations; like the title, title of links, body of text in the website, the more the merrier.
I wasn't finished there, I then had to go and add backlinks to my site. You just add your site address in hundreds of directories and I mean hundreds, then start writing articles using your keywords and submitting those to directories. I had enter articles to two sites a day for the last month. This is a lot of work, but is free traffic. There is services out there that will do this for a fee, but when you are on a budget, do the work yourself. The nice thing about this is yesterday my site was ranked on the first page on google with my keywords. Wow!

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