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Originally Posted by dvduval
I truly believe that if you add good and original content that is good enough that people enjoy reading it, you will slowly build readership and traffic. I think you should think about your readers first, and search engines second. You may only have a few at first, but that will change over time with a continued effort.
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If one is willing to wait it out or, "Build it and they will come." that is perfect advice.
Consider that any brick and mortar business can take up to 3 years to show profitability, the Internet is often no different.
From my experience what I have learned is that it is a good idea to get enough PageRank to get a few important pages ranking well and then leave it to "nature" to do the rest.
But, while nature is doing its thing, see what you can do about getting more eyeballs on your pages independent of search engines, i.e. social networking and link sharing sites.
In the long run, the more eyeballs on a given page, the more chances to earn links naturally.
All that said, just like there are short cuts one can take in the meat world to TRY to reach success sooner, short cuts exist in the virtual world but there are easily as many risks by taking that route in either realm.