What's Your Single BIGGEST SEO Secret? Here's Mine FREE

Hi all,

I was thinking today... there's so many motivational threads on the Warrior forum these days that people seem to have forgotten what it's all about:
Main discussion forum: Where we talk about making money.

So I thought I'd make a good ole' traditional thread where we get down to some 'brass tacs' of making money online.

I've made the majority of my money online one of the more traditional ways... Creating content rich websites (not blogs), promoting them, waiting for the domain to age and finally (hopefully) receiving an auto affiliate income every month.

The biggest secret to this niche business model is, of course, what rank you have on the search engines. And so constantly you strive for better free rankings on google through backlink building, on page optimization etc.

So for those of you who are in the same 'business' as me, (probably the vast majority of Warriors) I'm asking you today...

What's your biggest secret to achieving higher rankings? What's that golden nugget that works everytime? I mean specifics, what keyword density's worked best for you? What's your favourite method for building google backlinks?

To start of this hopefully valuable thread, here's mine:

On page optimization. Getting backlinks (one's that google counts) is HARD. And so I try to do as little of it as possible. Here's how:

Internally, link to your most important pages (the money makers) more often. I've had amazing results with this.

Example: One of the pages on my sites was on page 4, once I added a link to that page from 7 of my top PR pages, it rose to 3rd on google for that Keyword in just 2 weeks! Bearing in mind that this was an old page which had been a previously non mover on page 3 for over 2 months.

Don't forget file and domain names. In my experience, they play a huge role in your site rankings. Example? Search gas4free on yahoo (A once very competitive term) on yahoo and there's my 1hour to make, 1 page site at number two!

Unless you plan on making that particular website a million dollar one (maybe you do), then don't place so much emphasis on short, memorable domain names... Go for SEO as it'll be well worth your trouble.

So, there you go. Simple, but they really work. Has anyone else got any secrets they'd like to share? Blackhat or Whitehat I don't care!

Just please, no fluff, no filler, and no 'just take action' cop outs or general 'submit loads of articles' type answers.

And why should you reveal your biggest secrets to a bunch of strangers? I dunno, but if every does, think about what you stand to gain in return - One secret for countless other pieces of gold!

Cheers,
George Montagu Brown