Content is king!

Also work on getting relevant backlinks from authority sites. For very competitive terms, this means networking in your field with other webmasters. It is achievable, but involves a lot of hard work.

hard work is the key for this. . . Have a patient in getting quality links and creating good content.

Will get your web pages ready for high rankings,You will create fresh and good content.That is improves the Keyword ranking.

yeah i will do agree with above mentioned

First target less competitive keywords.

optimize for that keyword, you are only focusing in 1 keyword thats easy. on page; optimize for that keyword then use that keyword as an anchor text.