By including all five of these on page SEO methods it will put you ahead of over 70 % of your competition. In my experience I have seen so many authors miss out on ranking because they haven't included these five basic SEO techniques. You will notice however an exception to that rule when you look at high page ranking sites, usually 3 and above don't SEO optimize and yet still rank well. This is because Google sees them as high authority sites and ranks them automatically on their prior efforts. Until then though we must follow these simple rules and aim for a higher page rank also.
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