Over on SEO Design Jeffrey L Smith outlines How to Extend your Keyword Empire in 3 Simple Steps. Well really there are two steps, the third is to look at the results of the first two steps and then repeat them with additional keywords.

Step one is to research the best keyword phrases to target, and create content around those. Step two is link acquisition, for which Jeffrey suggests three methods, finding sites linking to the top pages for the keyword and try to get a link too; directories; and submitting content to other sites (article marketing).

My experience suggest that the directories option is a waste of time — I did some research into that, using Vilesilencer’s list of SEO Friendly Directories. In short, results were not worth the effort. Article marketing, and contributing comments and guest posts is less work in the long run, and more effective.