This is my method for ranking #3 in one month on a 33k Exact keyword.
1. Created the site and added quality content.
2. Social Bookmarked the home page and 5 inner pages with 400 Bookmarks to each page.
3.Created 10 web 2.0′s and pointed them at the money site, the content was not spun content.
4.I then created 60 web 2.0s and added spun content (minimum 60% unique) to them and had them pointing at the original 10 web 2.0s.
5. I social bookmarked all 70 web 2.0s with 30 social bookmarks each.
6. I then submitted an original article to 100 article directories, 20 were at the money site and the others were pointed randomly to all web 2.0s.
7. I then did 30 high PR blog comments to the money site and 200 to the Web 2.0s.
8. After that was all complete i blasted the articles and web 2.0s with around 50000 live links coming from 75% blog comments and 25% profile links.
I did all this in the space of 30 days and most were paid for as i have higher priorities with my ecommerce store. All up total cost was under $150. Just thought id share what has worked for me. I had my links getting indexed at a steady rate in Linklicious.
Summary: I wrote about 11 unique articles and paid for the rest to be done using different services. Keyword was not in top 1000 30 days ago now it is at #3 and has been there for 6 days now so im quietly confident it wont dance away. (i hope)
Feel free to ask any questions if interested
Good luck with all your projects