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I think in the end you will find that if you build a quality site, you will get the Google traffic you so desire. There are search engine experts out there that often rank below my sites and I put very little effort into making my site for Google. Their crap ass search engine spam pages probably have a bounce rate of 80% or more whereas mine stay at around 20%. And I can promise you, that plays heavily into why Google shoots my sites to the top of my desired keywords over those search engine optimized websites.
Back in the day when Yahoo was a directory, people began paying anywhere from $100 to $600 to get listed, I wouldn't even submit my site to Yahoo and yet they would add my sites for for free. They did this to about 7 of my sites.
Search engines want to provide their surfers with the highest quality site they can and if you continually produce good websites that make surfers happy then Google will give you the rank you want. It may take longer than you want but eventually you are going to get a favored tag from these search engines and get your websites a bonus to rankings because your sites are known as high quality.
Sure Google or any search engine will take any crap you throw at it but in the long run, they will always favor those sites who make their surfers happy. So when you are making your websites, keep that in mind.
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