Just to be sure that everyone understands that doing proper keyword research is not the only thing that needs to be done to optimize your website or blog to gain first page results with the search engines.

Quality back links are also a necessary part of the equation too. Getting links back to your website or blog might seem to be a hard thing to do what with contacting other webmasters with relevant, high PR sites and either begging or paying them to link to your site. This is not really necessary though.

There are article sites that have a high PR (page rank) that you can submit relevant articles to in their relevant categories that will give you a link back to your site in the resource box at the end of the article.

There are article submitters that you can use to get your articles out for distribution to multiple directories at the same time. A great place to learn about article submissions is at Article Marketing Automation an article distribution network that creates back links like crazy.

You can also go to forums that are relevant to your subject matter and post in them with a signature that is a link to your site. Every time you post it automatically creates a link to your site.

Linking to your websites or blogs is one of the most powerful things that you can do to gain prominence within the search engine rankings and should be taken very seriously and worked on every day or whenever possible.