Good content Well-structured site that is easy to navigate Diverse backlinks from a variety of sources Varied anchor text Consistent, natural looking velocity Avoid all the "tricks"
I'm pretty new also. The other day someone in a forum recommended a SEO site called, seoinpractice.com. It's a free online SEO book book that looks very good. Here's a quote from the author: "Here's the underlying principle of this book: the main thing of SEO is practice. Yeah, learning SEO makes you smart — but doing SEO drives your site up. With this guide, you'll be learning and doing SEO from the very first minute, and see how exactly you'll take your site to the top of Search Engines, where the sweetest spot is. I've been discovering all tricky web promotion techniques for many years. Several years ago I put them all in the SEO in Practice guide and I'm glad it turned out to be very useful to most readers, just like I hoped." I think it may help you a lot! Cheers from Eddie P