My friend!

SEO requires time and efforts. According to my experience, you can't get ranking before atleast 3 to 4 months. But if your keywords are not so much competitive, you can also get ranking before 3 months. As you wrote that your primary seed watchword is "the manner by which to profit quick" so it is a long tail keyword. May be you get ranking quick on that keyword on Google and other search engines.

Remember my friend! To optimize your website doesn't mean you must get leads. The purpose of SEO is to take the visitors to your website. After that, they buy from you or not, no one gives you it's guarantee. So it is my suggestion that put your all efforts to optimize your website till 6 months. You will get leads because normally SEOs started to get leads from search engine while optimizing their website. But if you want to quick sales, go for PPC.

Indeed, speed online = cutting corners. It's possible to be a good black hat but you have to know what you're doing for the long term. That being said, it will also require some education onnyour part.
For a quicker and less educational route, get on places like Fiverr, Source Market and SEO clerks and start posting on something you're good at like content writing and help others thus help yourself oin return.

Hmmm ... the website in your signature teaches SEO and says to call with your SEO questions. Your signature says that you have been doing SEO for many years. Seems like an odd question based on that. I'm guessing that you don't realize that the links on this forum are nofollow links, seeing as it is your first post.

Hello Mr. Metricbuzz, sorry to destroy your dreams, but as a SEO company you should know, that make money fast with Search Engine is JUST a DREAM. When you work for long lasting rankings in Google then SEO requires time and efforts. I can tell you on my experience, you can get ranking at 2 to 3 months when you go for low competition keywords (BUT please search they NOT in keywords planner, this NOT a SEO volume, its only for ADWORDS) But I think as a SEO like your homepage tells me, you should know this already....

I started a couple of years ago to point my students toward optimizing their sites for real traffic / targeted traffic not based on SERPs. It is a truth that seems to be constantly overlooked by most website owners as they try with great effort to rank on Google.

Seems like all that effort would provide better results if focused on traffic ladened platforms within which you can leverage your efforts on a more even playing field.

As opined previously, quick = money investment in Pay Per Click (PPC).
Which in my opinion, is the quickest way to get on page 1 on any search engine and enjoy the SERP traffic dream.