In his Blog Curation class, Harlan Kilstein claims that you can get good rankings fast through curation, which is a fancy way of saying linking to other people's sites and wrapping it in a little editorial content.

He's right. In fairly short order I brought my website named webmarketingfree.com to page 1 of Google for the search "web marketing free".

In my previous blog entry, inexpertly titled http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/to...ting-free.html,...

I finally started following Harlan Kilstein's advice and have been updating my Web Marketing Strategies blog regularly over the last couple months, and to up the ante I have used a pure curation play with zero SEO. Arguably negative SEO because I did what i would normally regard as well under the minimum any sane site should use. Result: It just hit page 1 of Google for this keyphrase, with was my initial target:

web marketing free

Pretty good, if I do say so myself,...