Try some link exchanging, backlinks are the most important think when trying to get your site visible in time people will talk about you in social networking sites or they will promote you by putting your link on there site.

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Definately check out social bookmarking too and make the internet work. Using Wikipedia and other wikis or writing a few articles can help get your credibility off the scale and backlinks will come eventually. The net is nothing like it was 15 years ago you could make a site on 'cars' and rank high in the search engines its a lot different but, but definitely do-able.

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