Listed below are 30 quick and essential SEO techniques to boost your rankings :
1. Text links on a page are a must for the spiders/bots to follow.
2.Content is key!! Be sure your page has proper and unique content. while writing content one should focus on keywords and make sure the content has enough keywords. Spread your content.
3. Make sure to have title tags on every page and they should be keyword focused.
4. Be sure update your website with fresh content. It can help improve rankings.
5. Backlinks are essential. Make sure your website has quality back links. However, in the initial stages of website building content should be ones primary focus.
6. Links within the sites i.e. intra-site links must use keywords.
7. Keywords and phrases should be used appropriately wherever possible.
8. While designing a website, SEO should always be considered.
9. Make sure you dont use keywords too often in the content. It may work against your goal. Search engines look at how many times a term is in your content and if it is abnormally high, it will work against you.
10. Make sure texts around your links are also keyword related. It helps.
11. Make sure to put keywords in alt tags of images you put in your website.
12. When getting back-links , try to make sure you get them from a quality website.
13. Try to get adds on your websites. A few of them don't hurt.
14. Try to work on the website regularly.
15. Submit your website to Google, Bing and other search engines.
16. Thorough re-search should be done while selecting keywords. Using Google Ad-words is preferable.
17. Try to use keywords in alt tags of images.
18. You may add videos as-well , however they should be relevant to your content.
20. Keyword stuffing, doorway pages are unethical and should be avoided.
21. A new site should be started with Word Press or Weebly if coding is not your thing. These website building sites have several SEO plugins.
22. Any of the website pages shouldn’t be more than 2 or 3 clicks away from the home page and the pages must be interlinked by giving links to other pages in the same page.
23. Create an xml sitemap of your website and submit it using Google’s Webmaster Tools; it will help the search engines crawl and index your website pages faster. A free online tool can be found at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
24. Getting rid of duplicate content. This may rank your site even lower than before.
25. You cannot rely solely on SEO for traffic.
26. Internal linking should be done properly as it adds relevance and authority to your site.
27. Make sure every page is linked to every other page , however don't link the same page to all the pages as it increases chances of getting penalized for over-optimization.
28. Keep in mind User Experience while designing your website and content.
29. Longer content works better. Make your contents long.
30. Try and work on your site speed. The faster your site loads, the better.