Ranking a Site

Hey all,

I've been using the forums here for awhile, but I haven't come around to learning about ranking a new site yet. I have searched and searched, and can't really find the best way.

Basically, I want to register a .com domain which is available for my exact keyword (great monthly searches 100k+). I need to outrank the wiki and YouTube results for this keyword.

What is the best method? I don't mind spending decent money. Feel free to link me.

Thanks!

Do yourself a favour and don't use exact match domain. If it's for a 100K+ keyword, you can be almost sure it was used and possibly abused by somebody in the past.

Also, if you are new to this, you can easily end up overoptimised, so go with a nice brandable domain. Whether fresh or expired.

Regarding links:

1. Links that serve for diversity - Do not expect some serp improvements for those, but if you need to diversify your link types and anchors, then these are to go - niche relevant forum posts and profiles, niche relevant blog comments, some directories if you feel like it, bookmarks, etc. Crap links to sum it up.
2. Links that are in between - Links that serve both for some slight firepower and for diversity - Web 2.0s. Whether fresh or expired, these are evergreen of linkbuilding. Build a decent quality web 2.0s, ideally, get yourself expired ones and build them up nicely. You should see an improvement.
3. Links that actually rank you - Guest posts, PBNs, editorial links - Expensive power links. There are whole essays written on the topic of these here on BHW, so search for them.

Bottom line to remember:

You get what you pay for.