Thanks!.
What google seems to want more than anything is spam. Spam and links. Content takes a second seat to that, which is why so many trash sites do well in a search.
So, feeling like a spam whore, I made use of every place I could spam in an alt. tags, title tags, etc. I made a couple spam folders to store images in – one per keyword per page (for example if the key phrase is “internet gambling” the folder would be “internet-gambling”) AND the next step is to rename stored images to include the key phrase. So, the phrase pops up like crazy: 
I did that to 3 pages or so, and it really seems to work.
God, I feel so cheap.
LoL