Not only these techniques but you have also to get quality backlinks.

Mine are

* title should be keyword rich with 58 to 60 character
* description should be there ..as it does not have so much requirement but a lot of search engine still count it
* alt tags should be keyword rich
* header tags
* put the h1 close to the body
* sitemap
* navigation
and strong off page..

actually list is endless ..depending on the competition of keywords

For me quality content is a good factor to increase your rank and have a good quality content.

I agree with you. Those are very important in every site.

Add content and more content. Also don't spam the keyword in your content and use img alt tags.

You can do SEO for your site for better results by two methods ON-SITE and OFF-SITE OPTIMIZATION.

The best thing to do is to have good content on your site. There's no point striving to get to the first page/or #1 on Google if you don't have great content. Content is King as they say.

Keywords serves as the whole summary of your site in few words.It is very important especially if you want to have a high page rank in search engines.

In order to perform well, you must also have backlinks from relevant reputable sources that relate to your content.

Hi guys
This is what I do ...

1. Write a title to include the main keyword and four related keywords that would be included when people search. Always make the title in a <h1> tag.

2. Mention your most popular keyword in the first paragraph and the last. Mention variations of the keywords at least 20 times in the article.

3. Make subheadings throughout the article which include keywords. Put then in <heading> tags H2,h3,h4...

4. Always have a meta description and keywords. For the description, mention phrases that might be used in a search, and things you couldn't fit into your title.

5. I do not go and get backlinks for my individual articles and they all end up PR 3 as my home page is PR4..

6. Writing an article like this, with great content and information, will ensure you take a quick trip to the top. But you must have the best information to get there.

All this SEO can only help if it is valuable content for the reader. If you just pump out crap then there is no use wasting your time. Trust me I have done both great artilces and crap ones....

I have also gone back a year later and added all these factors into an old article and it does improve the rankings by 100%.