Originally Posted by GangsterProfit

#1 thing, get your own domain and start building it out.

The biggest factor in getting a quick start with SEO is going after longtails first, then working your way up towards the bigger terms. Way less competition means way less waiting time to rank.

Focus on building up some buffers, such as your blogspot, tumblr, etc, and blast cheap backlinks to those... the link juice can pass through to your money site, but you won't run into penalty issues if you're not direct linking.

Remember, Google likes to rank different types of content for keywords, because not everybody is searching for the same exact thing. So I like to go into a keyword and see if anything that usually ranks might be missing (for instance video, a press release, a twitter account, whatever.) Focus on trying to rank whatever is missing, and you'll have a better chance of moving up fast.