Im top rank (for creepy eye studios) on google. Here are the reasons why I think I'm so high up:
a. no subdomain (I never ever ever ever got a subdomain to be indexed, this goes back before I found x10 and was being hosted as a subdomain off of my dads business' hosting plan, google never found me and my very old site has been up oh I dont know 5-6 years).
b. Meta tags (I think they help, or else it jsut html voodoo)
c. unique name (seriously who else would have creepy eye studios)
d. youtube page, is the same name and many of my videos link directly to the website
e. make sure you dont have your main page in a lower directory (seriously dump the corny intro pages, they never help with getting indexed) I wasn't indexed until I got my page on top directory
basically I was indexed and on top in under a week by doing these things. Hope it helps