Keyword research,having unique content and Backlink building are best SEO techniques which are considered most important steps in Search Engine Optimization.
When it comes to SEO trying to decide what is most important is always going to cause a debate. Some people believe that it is on page, some feel that its off page. I guess that you really have to look at results to see which way to go. 1. Backlinks are a great way to get the site ranked. The issue here is quality over quantity. I would rather have 1 backlink from a PR 7 site than 10 from a PR0 site. Does that make sense. 2. Content is king. Only if it is effective. You are aiming to get listed on the search engines. So, make sure they see your content. Use the right placement of keywords and supporting words. 3. Submission. Get your site listed in the search engines. Sure Google will get around to indexing your site eventually. Help them out by letting them know your there. There you have it three major and important parts to SEO. Remember quality is better in most cases. Any Questions!
I think many people will agree with me as the thread states, which SEO technique is most important - In my opinion the actual domain's URL. If you search for any popular keyword terms usually you'll see multiple top ranking results with the keywords in the domain. Many webmasters create multiple domains just for targeting seperate keyword domain URLs. Basically if you have your main keywords in your domain name you will rank higher in the SERPs for the given terms with MUCH less effort. While obviously there's so many factors involved in SEO you can never narrow it down to just one, I think the domain name plays a big role as far as SEO results.
If you have a lot of unique content (hundreds or thousands of pages) than you don't need many back links. Ideally content should be added on daily-weekly basis. OR If you have just a few pages you need a lot quality back links.
try to analyze your website on the basis of Google analytics. If can do i, nothing can stop your way. Remember: If your path is wrong, the it doesn't matters how fast you are running as you will never have your destiny.
As has been said, quality content first is the key, then building backlinks to high PR sites will help increase SERP position and PR.
From what I've seen the more content a site has, the quicker it moves up the ranks. User-generated sites will benefit from this, as well as sites where pages are being added daily (which is a lot of work unless a team is doing this).
I agree with most of the posters here. A good foundation and a little 'grey hat' seo such as link building and paid traffic go along way
The most important thing? Keywords in domain. Huge boost in SE, if you do everything else right, that is...
Relevant keywords content on your site + backlinks (forum posting, article submissions, blog commenting, directory submissions, etc)
The most important SEO technique is to have an enough budget to buy a good domain and some authoritative backlinks to your domain.