Are you new to SEO and do not have enough time to look at all the issues involved with it? Below is a list of things you can always refer to while starting SEO of your site.

1. Always have a stable sitemap. Make sure your sitemap is accurate. It should have all the links you want to get indexed and none of the links you would not wan to get indexed. The "last mod" should also be correct. The change frequency is also important. Google will not respect your sitemap until it is really correct.

2. The robots.txt file should not be blocking any page you want to be indexed. It should contain the link to the sitemap as well. You can block any crawlers using this file from accessing your content. Although it is not necessary that all crawlers will respect the robots.txt file.

3. Use of "H1" tag is very important to promote the proper keywords of the page. This is one of the highest preference text on the page.

4. Page title should be very crisp and contain the keywords. Also remember that the keywords in the page content and the page title should be similar.

5. Photos and pictures used in the page can help improve SEO. One can use proper "Alt" tags and image title to seed keywords in the page.

The things mentioned above are only on page optimization. Off page activities also help a lot in SEO but is mostly limited to link building.

Source by Naman Sarawagi