What is the other way to get a Google ranking quick?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  EJ Skoldberg: SEO question of the day
  
  What is the other way to get a Google ranking quick?
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  Jim Munro: What was the first way? :)
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  Dave Elliott: Owning wikipedia seems to help.
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  Brent Wildman: +Jim Munro ;sending an email to Matt Cutts ;
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  Micah Fisher-Kirshner: 1) Find an SEO
  2) ???
  3) Rank well!
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  Kalpesh Bharankar: +EJ Skoldberg start with onpages, look into to optimize title & descriptions of all the pages and also images i.e. alt tag
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  Ashish Ahuja: Neo there is the red pill and there is the blue pill since you have taken the blue pill I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes
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  Barry Kirley: Get on Web Master Tools and get Google crawling your optimised landing pages.
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  Coding Brains Software Development Company: +Brent Wildman
  That's cool solution i must say.
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  Graywolf Prepper: Get high-ranking sites to link to you. 
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  Steven Ciccantelli: Establish authorship 
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  EJ Skoldberg: Thanks for the comment.