newbie at seo

[imagerage]

i've read a lot of articles on the subject already, is it basically just getting a lot of backlinks, optimize the meta tags and choosing the most effective keywords?

[Hostguide101.com]

yes that would be some good basic seo there is the use of tags such has the H1,H2,H3 also using a anchor text and getting many backlinks with it.

[xedis]

well...basically this is the thing :P
regards.