Improve Search Engine Visibility Fast

The brand name of your company or your client is important. When someone searches on this word(s) you should be listed in more than one slot in the top 10 results in Google. The problem is, if you only have a website, then you can only get one slot. You need to publish with your key words on more websites that rank well.

If you only have one of the top 10 spots in Google searches for important key words - here is how to likely get some more.

These four places that will let you (responsibly) publish information with links to your site. The new thing you write ranks well quickly because it is on existing sites that have great ranking.

answers.yahoo.com - Strategically creating good questions and answers will get ranked well on search engines and generate traffic to your website or blog. Use the tool and do not always promote something, or the same thing.
Squidoo.com - Publish your lens with resources and outbound links. Be sure to use the keywords you are targetting in your tags and titles.
HubPages.com - Freakishly fast and high ranking in Google after publishing on this. Build HubPages on your targeted topic and be sure to include a few links to what you are promoting.
Gather.com - Very community focused. Participate in the community and your page will rank better.

In all four of these cases, you have to add value. If you just post blatant promotional items, it will get far fewer results (and possibly removed.)

A technique I use is writing a top 10 (or 7) list on a topic, with links to additional information peppered throughout. Those links may go to blog posts like this one with more detail.