Getting easy stuff to the top quick

Granted you can get there—what's the fastest way?

[suidas]

Let's say you're trying to get yourself to the top of a not-very-contested topic. For example, imagine you have a comprehensive page on yellow-bellied bumblebees. There are other pages on the topic out there, but nobody has a commercial interest in it, and you've had good luck getting other such sites to the top of Google and other search engines by good content, search-engine friendly site design, link cultivation, directory submissions, and other suchnot. That said, you'd rather get them there in 3 or 6 months, not the usual year.

So, my question is: What are the most effective ways of getting lift for low-competition keywords? Given limited time, what order do you do things? What techniques deliver the most bang for the buck?

[troels nybo nielsen]

If the competition is low it really still is simple to do, at least in Google. (Not sure about other search engines.) Create your new page and link to it from some well established pages that are often crawled. Use relevant anchor text and perhaps add some relevant text to the main text in those already existing pages.