Backlinks are the most important component for a #1 website. Market your site through facebook, twitter and make comments - but not spam , on the blogs and forums, and add a script that lists the related keywords in every page of your website.
Easily?? Think about that... you don't know which keywords she have on her mind and how good SEO did her competitors done... if they have high Pagerank and many links, she could try to beat them for her whole life and never manage to do that... For many niches researching competitors on #1 page on Google is first thing to do and not one of the last things...
The content you submit should be attractive and valuable for other webmasters to link to. Link building is not just submission, it is more important to create link worth contents.