Here is a guide I wrote that may help you get decent rankings without a ton of backlinks. Search Engine Optimization Tips For Your Website Oh, bear in mind that recently my website went down for a few hours and the search engines crawled and saw that it was down and ranked me wayyy down for all my posts. At the time of me writing this my site was ranking fairly high. Enjoy.
Well, your competely wrong about the heading tags and I pretty much stopped reading at that point. The whole concept of using heading tags on your web pages is to structure the content on that web page and provide to search engines and users what the content is about in different sections of the web page. Using more than just the "H tag" as you described it.
All you do is kind of explain part of the onpage SEO in the article. If you do not want to build backlinks you should make a ton of unique and awesome content so you get a few natural links and ton of social links and likes and tweets.
well as seo specialist until now i am still developing more techniques, keep searching for latest and effective tricks.