* bought a 7 year old domain name.
* wrote 5 pages of content on it.
* then made it live, linked it from a very relevant article on wikipedia.
* Soon got few links.
* The hyper linked text of the incoming link starts to rank within a month.
tl;dr: SEO is just recommendation from other sites. Everything else are micro-details that you can afford to ignore.
* bought a 7 year old domain name.
* wrote 5 pages of content on it.
* then made it live, linked it from a very relevant article on wikipedia.
* Soon got few links.
* The hyper linked text of the incoming link starts to rank within a month.
tl;dr: SEO is just recommendation from other sites. Everything else are micro-details that you can afford to ignore.