Hi Picky,

For link building this post from problogger might help you. Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World : @ProBlogger

About the domain url, for me it does not matter at all if you choose a keyword domain o emd domain just make sure you that the content you put on your site and the links you are building are quality.

For H1, H2 and etc, you can used it in your subtitles. Make sure that you include your keywords in your subtitle for ranking purposes

Regards,

Ronnie

Read the posts on this forum and you will get plenty of tips on SEO. Start by adding content on your site, find low competition keywords, and research your audience. Get backlinks from blogs and websites that are relevant to your niche and have high PR. Promote your site on social networks, forums, blogs and other online communities.

Picky,

Search engine optimization is a very big world and there are many things to learn however the best place to start would be with target keywords for your website. Choose the keywords and their variations that you want to include so searchers can find your content.

You will want to include these keywords in the content on your website as well as the architecture of the website (meta tags, alt tags, and titles). Choose keywords that are important to the product or service you are marketing and build a page around each one. There are certain characteristics as to how you do this such as keyword density in website copy and the number of relevant keywords you should include in meta tags.

Another thing you can do to start is learn about what white hat and black hat SEO are and their differences. Depending on what you want to accomplish, there are some tactics that may not be good to practice.

The tasks mentioned above are known as internal or onsite SEO and are related to website architecture that you have direct control over. Another aspect is offsite SEO which can include creation of external web properties that contain target keywords, article marketing and syndication, optimization of video, document sharing, link building and a number of other tactics.

It would also be wise to follow industry leaders in SEO to help guide you to good information on the subject. Keep up to date on industry news by reading the blogs and following the social media accounts of industry leaders. SEOMoz is a good one along with @randfish – Rand Fishkin the organization’s founder. Another good resource is SearchEngineLand.com and you could follow @DannySullivan – Danny Sullivan, the website’s Editor. Matt Cutts -- @mattcutts who is head of the webspam team at Google is another great resource.

Here are links to more information on SEO to get you started,

Learn SEO | SEOmoz

The Beginner's Checklist for Learning SEO | SEOmoz

Learning SEO From The Experts - A Step-By-Step Guide

Hope this helps you,

Shawn

You should go for branding at the beginning. Don’t create links with your targeted keywords at the beginning and always add content to your website to serve fresh content to search engines. Go for Tier 2 and Tier3 link building scheme so that your website will not be affected with any update, try to get as many contextual links as you can through web2.0 and guest blogging.

Hello,

If you are starting a new web site than you have to select proper domain name and follow below steps,.

1) Select your design and internal link building Strategy first.
2) than create unique content for your site.
3) Set the meta keyword and Description, Title, and all On-Page activity,
4) Now it's time for proper and valuable submission you have to perform all the Off-Page activity to become success like,
Directory Submission
Article Submission
Press Release and Add Posting
Forum Posting and Threading
Blog Commenting, and many more.

But you have to do all the thing with Quality not with Quantity.
Do all the activity in High PR Sites.

and You can also go for the SMO and SMM for growing your business on Social Media Sites.

Hope it might be helpful

Thanks and Regards,
Danny