1. The first tip I will give you will really help you alot. Go to Mozilla Firefox
and get all of these seo tools, like keyword density checker (this will check the % of your keywords) that you are targeting.
Google, Yahoo, backlink checker ( this will show you who your competition is linking to).
Alexa rank (this shows how much traffic a website gets)
Page rank checker (shows the value of a webpage) a 4 or higher is pretty good.
These tools will get you started.
2. You want to write a content based web page for the readers not for search engines. Search engines are getting smarter so don't write for search engines. You can do this by checking you keyword density. (It really shouldn't be above 5 or 6% or it will be considered spam. (no keyword stuffing)
3. Do not submit your site to Google. Why you ask? It will take forever to get listed. So this is what you do.
You go and get your site on a decent page rank (4 or above) that is relevent to your site. (If you sell electronics put your link on electronics site) and make sure its fresh and new. (If its fresh and new it gets crawled by the spiders) more often.
If it gets crawled more often and your link is on a good webpage then your link will get indexed by Google alot faster. (type in add url then your keyword) this will help you find a good link partner
4. Go get yahoo site builder
this will really help you build a website quickly and easily without knowing any html and its free!
5. When picking the name of your website then make it relevant to your website. (Keyword should be in your name)
6. When registering the domain of your web address the longer you register it for the more power it has in some search engines. (It shows that you are serious about your website and not just spamming)
7. Build relevant links to your site. (heres a great tool that will help you seo elite
8. Use h1 tags (search engines put alot of weight on this)
It should be your main title of your page and should have your keyword in it. (Should not be exactly the same as your title tag. Now if I'm losing you here don't worry its simple. Just think of it as writing you have a title and a sub category. So if your web page is for your title is beach wedding favors then make your h1 similar but not exact like maybe fun beach wedding favors. (If you go through yahoo this will eliminate alot of confusion)
9. Content. Content. Content.
Make your site useful to users and filled with all kinds of relevant content. Lots of tools, links, and whatever you can think of that you think your users will enjoy.
10. All the other experts want you to build thousands and thousands of links. (yeh its working for now) But in the long run if there not relevant then its gonna hurt ya. Because with todays search engines there learning that anyone can go and trade links with any other site (reciprocal linking) this means that its gonna surely RIP along with meta tags, keyword stuffing. Unless there relevant and are respectable links.
11. Dont put your links in image format. Text is always better.
12. Check back for more tips.