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If you ranked well , people found you on the web . If you managed to get the right key words that people were looking for , it’s be an easy ride from there , it’s be money flowing into her PayPal account from people all over the world , wanting her products, her services, and her expertise . They’d all want her to work for them, consult to them, and tell them her search engine secrets . But she wasn ’ t going to tell , these were her secrets .

Hard earned secrets, long hours behind the PC with the white bright screen staring back at her , the PC humming below the desk , warming up the room as the fan spun around as fast as it could , trying to cool down the CPU as the PC searched the best places to launch yet another campaign , and other listing on Google , or Yahoo , or MSN , or Miva , or Alexa , or Bebo , Exact , or any of the other search engines people went to look for things they wanted to buy , or read, or visit . None of it was a science , none of it worked exactly every time , exactly like it should , but most of it was great instinct , good content , reliable search engine information , and a lot of dedicated work . “ Come on Google ” she thought as she ran her left hand fingers through her hair for the fiftieth time , using her right index finger to pull down the scroll wheel on her mouse, as her eyes scanned the bright white screen with the traditional blue headline results that Google displayed . All text , all results , all nothing that she wanted to see .

Sally had spent months working on this . She’d analysed all the right keywords that she needed to rank for , she had looked at competitor websites to see how they had ranked , then looked at their keywords , not copied them ( because that was not allowed ) , but managed to use a few of the same key words , and then she had gone for the LSA version ( Latent Semantic Analysis ) and worked on all the variations that one could to get exactly the same result , no , not the same result, a better one , a much better one , one that would rank higher , longer , better and faster than any of her competitors .

There it was . No questions asked, and no answers given . She was going to win and she wasn’t going to accept any other outcome . It was all down to her and her skills , and she knew she had them.