What helps?

In a new website me and a friend are making we are trying to make a SEO Scheme.
So far we have:
meta tags, content and keywords.
mod_rewrite urls
quality content
tabless coding

What else is there?

In your .htaccess file, make a script to redirect users using a "example.com" url without a www. to one using www.

With your coding, use header tags, i.e. <h1></h1>, throughout your design appropriately.

Stick with clean and semantic coding.

There are some threads/articles on good SEO techniques on SitePoint.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182915

use robots.txt, too.

Originally Posted by controllerboy use robots.txt, too.

just make a file 'robots;txt' or what do you mean?

Originally Posted by rsek just make a file 'robots;txt' or what do you mean?

Can't really explain, Just, robots.txt is a file that shows robots (search engines) where they're allowed to crawl and where not. For example, you can have a real popular site and have a directory with rather private photos of you and your girlfriend, and you don't want search engines to index the folder, you can use robots.txt.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt
http://www.mijnhomepage.nl/artikelen...robots-txt.php
http://www.ranks.nl/dossier/robots.html

these are dutch articles.

dont use large pics on your website, crawler likes texts

about SEO you can read at http://library.rusbiz.com
(select internet and online biz, then SEO)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

English version for anyone in the US.

You could also check out my SEO's page and trial all of my examples out:
http://www.circle.co.nz/new-zealands...-designer.html

I got it ranked at number 4 in Google, 1 in MSN and 1 in Yahoo in less than a month.

Julian, you should make a page testing out 'New Zealands best search engine optimizer'.

I believe the first and foremost rule in SEO is clean coding. Not just tableless coding, semantic, well thought out code is the best way to please a bot..