SEO is the wait and gain technology..

They are all important and good methods, but you can not for sure that these would really get your site to appear on first page!

No one can!

these are tips which webmasters do while they are concern with promoting their brands or services.. so it is more effective, and great to have good resources, and make your work smart and qualitative..

True! Keywords are very importanat. I would suggest to find keywords with google adwords keyword tool. It helps you find different keywords and you can choose keywords that
have less competition, but good search queries. Thanks for sharing!

Link-building is easy to get page rank

Select appropriate keywords, use phrases.
use blog posting, forum discussion and article submission for get back links.
post your site on high PR directories in related category.

I think that with short tail with competitors it will be hard to appear on first page fast

Yeah after doing onpage optimization,if you go for off page optimization it will definitely boost your page rank.I have considered few more link building techniques like guest blogging,video submission,Do follow blog commenting.