1. Website analysis 2. Keyword Research 3. Adding Emphasis with Header Tags 4. Adding Emphasis with Tail Tags 5. Bold, Italic effect to main keywords 6. Canonicalization 7. Competition Analysis 8. CSS Validation 9. Google Base Feeds 10. H Tags Optimization (Eg: H1, H2, H3) 11. Header Tag Optimization 12. HTML Code Clean Up & Optimization 13. Image & Hyperlink Optimization 14. In depth site Analysis 15. Link Validation 16. Meta Description Tags Optimization 17. Meta Keywords Tags Optimization 18. Navigation & Design Optimization 19. PR Sculpting 20. Robots.txt Optimization 21. Text Modification Tags Optimization 22. Title Tag Optimization 23. URL Rewrite 24. W3C Validation 25. Working on HTML Source Code 26. Link Development 27. Authoritative Submissions 28. Broken Links Checking 29. Directory Submissions 30. Extraction of Site Url’s ( Link Level Depth) 31. Internal Link Structuring 32. Link Building ( Link Bait ) 33. Manual Link Request to Related Sites 34. One way link (PR4 or Greater) 35. Site Back-links count 36. Local Search Engine Optimization 37. Custom Review Submission 38. h card Integration 39. Local Search Engine Submission 40. Testimonial Submission 41. Updating pages for local searches 42. Website Usability & Conversion 43. Being Webmaster Tools account setup & monitoring 44. Google Webmaster Tools account setup & monitoring 45. Installing Usability Tools on Website 46. Monthly Website Conversion Tracking 47. Optimization for Multiple Browsers 48. Article Submission 49. Blog Comment on Relevant Blogs 50. Blog Designing for the website 51. Blog Submission 52. Classified submission 53. Creating Promotional pages on hubpages, squidoo, etc 54. Face Book Twitter Marketing 55. Integration of page bookmarking tools 56. Integration of page sharing tools 57. Paid Submission 58. Photo Sharing 59. PPT Submission 60. Press Release 61. Product Indexing on Google Base 62. Rss Feeds 63. Social Bookmarking 64. Video Submission 65. Content Writing & Optimization 66. Article Writing 67. Blog Writing 68. Content Modification 69. Press Release Writing 70. Thematically Optimization of content pages 71. Website content writing through Latent Semantic Indexing 72. Website Spell Check 73. XML Site Map Creation & Submission 74. SE Saturation Checking ( Google, Yahoo & Bing) 75. Log file analysis 76. Google, Yahoo & Bing Site Map Creation 77. Google Analytics Funnel Creation 78. Google Analytics Account Setup 79. Deep Indexing Recommendations 80. Checking server response code for each URL 81. Check Search Engine Road Blocks 82. Check PR of each url
Never heard of "Canonicalization" and "PR Sculpting" before !!!! Will be a great help. Thanks for sharing.
Canonicalization is described here in detail http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/
SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic.
Great list. Anyway, it'll be a lot helpful specially to the newbies if it's arranged into categories like - On-Page Optimization, Off-Page Optimization, Website Monitoring - something like that...