Unless you're talking about buying backlinks, and other questionable practices. 

Backlinking.

Its all abotu backlinks (crappy ones), citations keywords..

Have a company properly SEO your websites/backlinks/etc.Get a google my business set up and begin to have everyone you know who's willing leave you reviews.Get in as many rooms as possible with investors.

I have spent many hours on branding, blogging, social media, back-links, YouTube videos to climb the SEO ranks, and I have more work to do to reach #1 on all the major searches (hard to fit everything in a 24-hour day). 

Backlinks from lots of low quality websites - gone.

I have manually entered my site to different sites (Vator.com, BBB.com, Local directories, etc) for the purposes of backlinking.

I have been working on my blog for sometime and, like everone else, have been over whelmed by "great offers" on how to improve my traffic, backlinks and so on.

I'm hopeful :-)Pat Flynn did a good job with his security guard site, but I wouldn't touch his backlinking strategy with a 10 foot pole.I don't want to stray too far off topic, but my biggest site is on Glacier National Park at www.glacier-national-park-travel-guide.comI also detail a virtual rehab here: http://www.seosherpas.com/after-buying-an-established-website/ ...

DO NOT have a V.A. post under your name leaving yoru website everywhere connected to silly comments clearly written by someone working for $2 an hour with little command of the English language in hopes of building back links!