The first step is to get your website out there through promoting your website through various search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) techniques.  In addition it is very important to create your presence on other websites that link back to yours (referred to as inbound linking).  It is however, important to be selective regarding the inbound links you choose.

According to Google:

"Links help our crawlers find your site and can give your site greater visibility in our search results. When returning results for a search, Google combines PageRank (our view of a page's importance) with sophisticated text-matching techniques to display pages that are both important and relevant to each search. Google counts the number of votes a page receives as part of its PageRank assessment, interpreting a link from page A to page B as a vote by page A for page B. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

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Look at what it has done for http://www.homesbynorcross.com/ and http://www.christinenorcross.com/ in the organic search results (Christine just signed up last week):