Most Effective Method For Ranking Low-Competition Keywords

Don't be desperate my friend, i also worked on low competition keywords and i actually got rank quiet soon so the thing is try to make your SEO work worthy, do quality stuff. Follow any of the Off-Page activities like Bookmarking, Directory Submission, Articles, Forums or any other but do it under Search Engines SEO Guidelines or White Hat SEO. Start with some daily Bookmarking, Directory Submissions, Forums, Blog Comments worked to me and guess work for you as well.

Do a couple of fiverr gigs. $25 is a fine budget.

Here's one: find the contact details of 15 bloggers in your niche for $5 - taskangels
That allows you to contact bloggers directly to promote your porducts.

Here's another nice one: maNUALLY bookmark your site or blog to 30 social bookmarking sites PR4 to PR8 for $5 - tinamoran
That one is VERY friendly for new sites, since it's not done with scripts. It won't provide a huge boost, but it's safe.

Here is a similar situation: do 25 Manual Pr6+ Profile Links with full Report for $5 - antiviruss

You can also try your hand at writing articles for one of the article networks. Here's a good gig for getting your feet wet at that (this guy is helpful, I've ordered his twice): submit 10 Posts/Articles On My Linkvana Account for $5 - rockstar99

You want to limit the number of fiverr gigs. I wouldn't order more than 3 a week for the first 2 months.

Posting articles on article networks can be one of the most powerful things you can do. For a smaller keyword like yours you want to drip-feed the articles at a low rate. Link Authority is good for that. For $10 a month of so you can get one article a day, which should be enough to keep you at the top for a low competition keyword. You have to write the articles though.

4 or 5 gigs should get you to the top, but they will not keep you at the top. To stay at the top you'll have to show Big G consistent link building over a period of months. Form your link building budget with the knowledge that each link will push you up in the rankings a lot more when it's fresh, and then it will lose 85% of it's boost in about a week.

Do a quick on-page optimization .. Put on some keys on your title and meta tags, insert the keys in your contents, put on title tag on the links .. and a quality off-page links .. that will do

It will still depend on what niche are you in. Numbers from keyword tool can't be trusted 100%. However, link diversion is a good start using contents and good quality links.

Sorry if I am not answering your question although I would raise a question.

1. Would it be worth to rank a low competitive keyword?
2. Does it drive traffic?
3. Will it bring enough clients?
4. Does this keyword helps me to generate sales?

You should analyze these question before you implement.

Just because you have 15-20k in "competition" doesn't mean that it's an easy keyword. You have to really analyze the First Page of Google. Think about it... even if you only had 1000 competing pages, if the guys on the top ten are Super Ninjas with high optimization, high pr, and insane link juice, you'll never see the front page.

If the competition on the front page is low, just use some good on page optimization with quality content. Then throw some decent backlinks at it like BMR links or UAW links and you should find yourself climbing the search engines. I'm actually testing a lot of this on a mass scale in my blog.

Hope this helps.

Ranking of particular keyword basically depends on niche, in order to get top 10 ranking you need to analyze your competitors backlinks and try to get the same.
You need to optimize your site properly with genuine content. Social bookmarking, forums and Article marketing will helps you in getting better SERP in quicker way but don't try to get too many links otherwise your site will be penalized by search engines.
Gradual seo process will helps you in longterm

I would suggest you go for Article writing and posting. Writing UNIQUE and ORIGINAL articles is an effective way of ranking low competition keywords. Another big advantage of this method is that it is prone to go viral.

I would obviously suggest some services where you can target your keywords, some of them are as follows

1. Linkreferral
2. Technorati
3. About.me
4. Crunchbase
5. iEncyclopedia
6. Forum posting (with signatures links you can target any keywords through anchor text)

The reason my competition is so low is because I am ranking local SEO in a small town (150k population), therefore even a search like 'hairdressers town' only has like 140 exact match searches per month.

But the $$$ is in the fact that there IS no businesses doing SEO on that keyword and it is the highest searched keyword relating to the niche that I can find.