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just go ahead with all basic things. Unique Content quality Backlinks Keyword Density Social BookMarking
Set up social networking accounts: twitter, facebook, digg, delicious, reddit, propellor, and ay more you can find then submit your site to those Submit site to all major and some minor search engines list here: http://www.bblmedia.com/addurl.html Build backlinks on related sites: blog commenting, paid backlinks, and any other ideas you have for backlink building On page SEO: html validation, fine tune your meta tags, get your keywords right And remember: "content is king" so make sure your site has really interesting/useful content
if someone link to your site and you do not have backlink to that site, there is a chance of better PR........
Get more backlinks from Directories...article sites and social sites....backlinks from forums and classifieds too will get you there.
Content seems to becoming more important than ever with other seo methods falling back, do others think the same?
Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the most important factors for determining that website's search engine ranking, same goes with Page Rank.