Google has been keeping new websites out of its top rankings positions for nearly 1 year. Sadly, this has made the results far less relevant for ordinary users. Google probably assumes (hopefully incorrectly) that their brand loyalty will never die and that the prevention of SEO tactics and search spam is more critical to Google's survival then accuracy and timliness in the index. And, who knows, maybe they're right?
However, there are still quick and easy methods to get into the top rankings at Google for mildly competitive or non-competitive keyword phrases. You just need to have access to pages on sites that are already beloved by Google (and subdomains only work sometimes). Good candidates are MSN & Yahoo! Groups, pages at Google Answers (thanks to Alexis Dawes for the tip) and newspaper advertising pages (yes, you can buy these online).
This technique is neither for the faint of heart, nor the strapped of cash. Links to these pre-fab pages are still required, and spending SEO time on a site & page you have only partial control over is hardly a good time. However, these pages can, and do, rank quite well at Google in a very short amount of time. This serves as a further reminder that Google isn't broken, unless you started building links to your site after March of 2004...
I'm confused... this article is suggesting to get access to a page on one of these mentioned sites so that we can get control of a page that SE's will like and then link from that page to one of our websites we are trying to get rank for and in this way get link juice for our website?
No no no... this is just an oldie post, nothing to worry about too much anymore....Just go and create some good content on your website(s), link to it a bit if you like from places you can create your own links (web directories e.g.) and from then on, use some social media to get known and people will link to you in no time...
In a while, when you've got enough backlinks and of course relevant content to specific keyword search queries, you'll probably rank for the long ail at least...