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For websites which could use them, offer to write some articles. Embed keyword-loaded links in them. Associations, and other authorities, are often desperately in need of good material. Many times, they have great rank with search engines. Try to be their best friend. They'll return the favor.

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Be a friend. Offer basic websites to a few friends. Once they love you, they won't mind giving you a link, or two, for such a nice guy (or gal).

Get to know several bloggers. They are a major linking force. Tell them an interesting story. It gives them the opportunity to write about you.

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Create meaningful content on your website. It interests others in the subject you want to receive links. You get links you don't know about until the referrals show in your log.

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The best tip is to... create link bait. This is a feature, or service, which is so useful to your audience, people must link to it. Usually, this is interactive. If you like kites, have a wind forecaster. Cover pharmaceuticals? Offer a tool where you enter all your drugs, and it finds possible interactions. Trade Baseball cards? Provide a value projector. It shows what cards, for drafted (but not yet playing), are worth in 5 years. Who resists checking, even if there are notguarantees?

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# Be controversial. If writing about retiring on $8 dollars a month for life, all the finance blogs will make fun of you with links to your website.

# Keep trying. Keep asking. Stick with it.

When you do this, one day, others will be saying how it's no fair you have the top spot just because you've been around a while. They won't understand the hard work required. They'll think it's not fair they don't rank have the top spot just because they had the clever idea of creating a new website.