trust me dont bother its all a waste of time, there is no way of getting to the top anymore, you see site trust is very important in seo and if a site which has been on top for a long time has trust rank then they can use all the black hat methods they like without geting black listed koz they have trust rank, also they already have high pr rank so they can link exchange with other high pr rank pages, also your site needs to be old and crusty and shity like yahoo or msn you know that old chest nut. and dont even bother messing with adwords as you will see you money get all eaten up by the cons, you know the old chestnuts, google yahoo and msn. instead work on networking online through blogs and dont bother with links, just make lots of friends online and tell them about your site and you will frinds will come yes they will come and come and come all over your site
Two seo kings: Good content related to your keywords Good text baclinks related to your keywords and good titles they all will do the job as for praying i would advice to pray for improving your charcter not about getting your website in top ten google.