By breaking up long pages into two or three pages you decrease the loading time of the page for your visitor and you have additonal pages to submit to the search engines adding depth to your site listing efforts. By making keyword changes in each page you may attract more people looking for the data contained in your page. Name the extra pages to match your main keyword for that page like boats.html or cars.html. Find other sites in the same category as your own and exchange links with them. Use the search engines to find the sites that rank in the top 20 or so.
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Be selective in choosing your linking partners as you are sending them your visitors so it is a reflection on your site's quality as well. Good sites link good sites. Its a Manohar presentation.