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How to SEO your website

Here are some quick simple tips to follow to make your web page search engine friendly. Follow these steps and you're 90% of the way there.

Search engines are designed to return pages that are highly relevant to a keyword search phrase typed into the search box on their site. If you want your page to show up in the results, start by making your page relevant to a specific search phrase. Select the search phrase you want to optimize for and write it down so that you can focus on it. Try to keep it to 3 key words or less if you can.
Create a web page with a file name that contains your key word search phrase. Don’t use spaces in the file name, instead, use underscore (“_”) or hyphen (“-“) characters. It used to be the case that you would get better results on Google if you use the hyphen character but it no longer matters. Don’t worry about the name of the directory it is in.
Add a HTML title to your web page using your key words to start the title. Try to keep your title in the 5-8 word range.
Add a META DESCRIPTION tag to your web page to suggest an abstract to search engines to show in search results. Search engines may or may not use your description, it varies. The description should contain your key words and be approximately 90 characters long (including spaces).
Add a META KEYWORDS tag to your page. Most major search engines don’t put a lot of weight into your keywords tag, but some do, and most consider it at least somewhat. Use only your search phrase in here. You don’t want to look like you are trying to SPAM the search engine here.
Create a headline on your page using the H1 Tag, and make sure the headline contains your key words. Your headline could be the same as your page title, but this is not required. It better to have a little diversity.
Add content to your page that is very relevant to your search phrase. Ideally make sure to have 500-800 words.