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Content
By far, the most important thing you can add to benefit your search engine rank is high quality, unique and USEFUL content. This will get people to stay longer at your site, bookmark it, tell others about it, and link to it. Plus, the search engines are continually getting better at reading sites and finding the best content.
The more content, the better. Hundreds of pages of unique content if possible. Update this content regularly.
Create unique, accurate page titles
A title tag tells search engines and visitors what the topic of a particular page is. The <title> tag should be placed within the <html> tag of the HTML document. Titles should be brief -- 40-60 characters -- but descriptive, and accurately describe the content of the page. Ideally, you should create a unique title for each page on your site. Use keywords, but do not repeat them more than once or so.
Meta Tags
Meta Tags are different than they once were, but still important. Instead of filling these with keywords over and over again (as was the practice a decade or so ago), use an accurate, easy-to-read "description" meta tag, as this will be what's usually seen by visitors in the search engine. When possible, these descriptions should be unique for every page. The "keywords" meta is not used nearly to the extent it once was, but rumor has it it's coming back. It can't hurt to populate this with several accurate keywords, but don't overdo it! The "robots" meta can also help direct search engine bots find the pages you want them to -- use it. All meta tags should be found within the <head> tag of the site.
Site Structure
Use proper grammar and integrate keywords into your URL, page name, and file structure. This makes it easier to navigate and more likely a search engine will find your page.
example of bad url:
www.plrbrs1245.com/dir1/ausgh3.html
better url: www.polarbears1245.com/physiology/polarbearreproduction.html
Suppose somebody searched for 'polar bear reproduction,' and the two sites above (with the same content) appeared. The first example, somebody looking at the url probably wouldn't know what it was about, but the second one shows clearly what the reader is looking for.
Sitemaps
Add both an html sitemap to help users navigate your site AND an xml sitemap file for the search engines to use.
Heading Tags
<h> Heading tags provide emphasis, and help users find the topic they're insterested in. They also direct search engines to important key points of your site. Make these keyword rich when possible, but it's more important they're accurate.
Images
This is one of the most ignored search engine optimization tools. First of all, images should make your website more attractive and interesting to the reader. Overuse of pointless graphics are distracting and detrimental, but a few well-placed and interesting pictures add to the readers experience.
Use descriptive text via the alt attribute and name the picture something logical. For example, this picture is named 'seo-logos.gif,' has an alt attribute of "seo logos" and corresponds to the content of the article. This is much better than naming it 'pic1.jpg' with alt attribute of "pic1." 
Keep in mind that the contents of the alt attribute show up if the image doesn't load or for readers with images turned off. This is important, as more site-impaired people are surfing the internet with text readers, and little things like this make their experience better.
Useful Links Vs Unuseful Links
It's common knowledge that the more pages linking TO your site, the more important the search engines will think it is, thus moving you up the ranks. Some of these links are better than others, however. The Google algorithm is a tightly guarded secret and constantly changing, but some generalities are largely accepted as fact. One of these is that links using anchor text (descriptive text placed between the <a href...> and </a> tags) are much more valuable than links that are simply listed.
example: <a href = "www.plrbrs1245.com">polar bears</a> is much better than simply listing "www.plrbrs1245.com"on a link page
Another general concept that is widely accepted (although in February 2010 Google has reportedly tweaked this a bit), is that the higher the page rank of a linking site, the more valuable the link. While the following numbers are completely made up, for illustrative purposes this is the best example I can give:
www.zyx.com has a page rank(PR) of 10. Google allots PR10 1000 points. There are 100 links on www.abc.com, so each one is worth 10 pts.
www.xyz.com has a page rank of 2. Google allots PR2 150 points. There are 75 links on www.xyz.com, so each one is worth 2 pts.
Therefore, it is MUCH more valuable to have a link from www.abc.com than www.xyz.com, and it could be more valuable than having links from 4 sites similar to it.
This is highly over simplified, and the numbers completely arbitrary, but hopefully the general point comes across -- the more "important" the page that links to you, the better off you are.
Reciprical links (site A links to site B, and in turn, site B links to site A) are less valuable that one-way links, presumably to discourage link exchanges skewing the search results. Links found on links pages are also weighted less, for similar reasons. This basically means that a link inside an article about polar bears to a polar bear informational site would be more valuable to a reader than a link randomly found in a 'favorite links' page. Since it's presumed more valuable to the reader, it's weighted more by the search engines.
Internal Links
Internal links are those links within a site that connect one page to the next. These also have value, and should go to the page to which they're designed. While not NEARLY as valuable as external links, they do help search engines find them, and do count slightly.
Pages to Include
Search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo! look for QUALITY sites to provide their customers. Certain aspects of quality sites are often overlooked by web developers, and the sites are penalized.
Pages every website should have include: privacy policy, terms of service, contact us, sitemap (html version for users, xml for search engines), and at least one link to a respected outside site. For example, if your site is about golf, the search engines would expect there to be some link(s) to external sites, be it the PGA site, or Ping drivers, or golf shoes, because these add value to your users. A robots.txt file should also be included (although that's not a page, it's important to note).
Avoid Flash... and easy on the Java
Flash is what makes those really cool moving graphics on some webpages that look pretty but often don't serve any purpose other than to make the site look cool. While not ALWAYS the case, generally search engines don't like Flash. They can't read it, and therefore can't index it. If you have to click to get past it, the search engines may never find your content at all. Besides, most users just click 'skip intro' anyway, because they came for information, not fancy graphics.
Search engines generally can't or don't read java either. Some sites go heavy on the java tools to make cool mouseovers and things. Some of this can enhance the site, but overuse can hurt search engines ability to properly index your site -- ESPECIALLY in links. When constructing links, use text links, not images or java scripts.
Search Engine Submission
There are THOUSANDS of search engines out there, and you'll find companies offering to submit you to hundreds if not thousands of them for you. This is not necessary.
First of all, if you follow the steps in this article, the search engines will find you anyway. Secondly, 99% of the search engines get their data from only a few sources, 4 or 5 of which create their own indexes. The ones you need to submit to are Google, Bing, DMOZ, Yahoo, and Ask.com. These will feed almost all the others. I just saved you about 400 hours of time. You're welcome, feel free to share some of the money saved by donating to our site.
Avoid Frames
Frames were very popular about a decade ago, but search engines tend to choke on them. There are instances where frames make perfect sense and can be added to your site to increase it's usefulness, but generally it's best to use other means to get your content to the viewers.