Search Engine Optimization Best Practices: The short list

i)                    On-Site Optimization: 

1-      Consistent and relevant URLs, Titles, description, headers, text

2-      Keywords Friendly Meta Tags and description

3-      Long-Tail Keywords compilations

4-      Quality backlinks

5-      Social Media integration

6-      Search Engine Friendly images (src attribute/alt tag description)

7-      Micro-formating (Thematic and Semantic) structure

8-      XML sitemap

9-      User generated content by site visitors (comments, reviews)

10-   Using canonical Meta tags