One of the fastest ways to improve your search rankings is with quality backlinks. The more traffic and pagerank a site has, the better the "link juice" and SEO benefits to your site when that site is  linking to you. But, how do you get sites with a lot of traffic and authority to link to you? Simple. Search for similar sites as yours and beg the website owner to add a link to your website. It's not rocket science but there's a BIG problem.  It's a lot of work, it's tedious, and it's time-consuming.