About 25% are from here...

[tepe]

It's amazing how they calculate all these things. They're quite smart to come up with all this =)

[tommylogic]

yeah cool.. thanks.... both of you guys. And no Tepe I didn't think you were off topic at all.
I knew Google wanted regularly updated site content via their sitemap submit tool. It is the links to your site that gets me, I'm affraid. I don't push for that and I don't intend to... so I will be doomed to be stuck I imagine.
I though maybe you had some golden ticket that you might know of.. legal & honest anyway.

[Toon]

Do lots for people, then call the favours in when needed.

[tommylogic]

Originally Posted by Toon

Do lots for people, then call the favours in when needed.

Whats the question exactly?

[Toon]

How to get decent links back......good SEO. Unless you prefer to pay for them?

[afox]

Yeah there are a lot of things that go into play. I overhauled my website about 3 weeks ago (about when i signed up here) I was getting no traffic, wasn't using it, etc. I decided to actually SEO it, and use everything i've learned (well most of it) to rank it up. And I was able to go from zero to #7 on google for 'freelance website design' 1st page in 2.5 weeks, my traffic is literally doubling exponentially, etc. Keyworkds and link backs are what drive the most traffic I've found. Relavent is a good thing sure, but the more I do this the more I realize that link backs period are what is gold. I used to do SEO for one of the major players in Shared Hosting, and it always always always boiled down to link backs. <a href="yoursite">key phrase</a> etc.