P.R.A.S.E.

Mark Martirez over at box.ph box.com.ph clued me in on this beta tool. (Ive always wondered how he gets these ahead of me). Apparently, if you want to gain top rank in a search term, the first thing to do is to see who ranks the highest. And http://www.prase.us/ is the site to do this.

Once you know the top ranked websites for your search term, you could do the following:

1. Examine how the top websites did their site. (layout, content, headers, meta tags)
2. Write to them and possibly offer something of value to them in exchange for linking to your site.

You could gain invaluable insight into what each of the top ranked sites value most…possible new doors will open up to you.