A local web company that is supportive of our students has a nice Free SEO Tutorial to help you with your search engine placement. When it comes to SEO you should always remember that there are no shortcuts in the long run to give you great search engine placement aside from building helpful content be people who find your site will link back to naturally in order to in turn help their readers.
Having said that, there are things you can do to help yourself with “on page” search engine optimization, which is simply helping search engine crawlers discover all the content on your site. The idea is that by helping them do this they will give you the authority you deserve in the search engine results pages because hopefully your content is of good enough quality to deserve it. Search engine optimization tutorials such as the one at the link above are great for inspecting your site and making changes where you need to.
