Since the subject is SEO Contest, here is how some have been doing it in the Isulong SEOph contest... 1. The contestants themselves have large blogs and forums and and a backlink on the forum or blog template. 2. Jozzua, made SEO Comics, it was a hit that people linking to him were SERoundtable, Jim Westergren and Bruce Clay. 3. I noticed 4 people, including myself made templates for Wordpress that was downloaded by many people. 4. Someone from Alleba.com made a wordpress plugin, that was downloaded also by several people. 5. Some of the contestants bought links. 6. Others just did endless forum postings. There are more techniques out there, check out... Aaron Wall's techniques: http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml