How do You start Doing the work in a positive and effective way?


Well this is the real life situation of a beginner who really want to go deep and make make his career In Seo.
There are lot of websites and lots of ways in which we can know about the basic concepts and basic information about the SEO related techniques. But Everytime we look at a website, we found something interesting and in the end, We get jumbled up with lot of stuff, Which is really Mind boggling
The one and only solution to this kind of situation which may arise in 99 percent of the seekers is making a definate sophisiticated Check list. 

For example My Checklist when I started working on the projects was as following

Initial Analysis
Website Analysis
Competition (SERP) Analysis
Keyword Research Report
Ranking Report
Optimization Report
Title, Meta, Alt, Anchor, Header Tag Optimization
Content & Navigation Optimization
Keyword Density Check
Bold & Strong  Word Check
Hyperlink
Friendly URL Rewriting
Page Size
Image
Loading Time
Initial Analysis
Audit Report
Canonicalization Check
Robot.tex
Custom 404 Error Page
Google Sitemap Page
Bing Sitemap Creation
Google Webmaster Tools Setup
HTML Sitemap Creation
XMLSitemap Creation
W3C Validations
Google Analytics Setup
301 Redirect Recommendations
Web Crawler Check
Content Duplicity Check
Two Way Links
Directory Submission
Local / Niche Directory Submission
Business Directory Submission
Social Benchmarking
Article Writing
Article Submissions
One Way Links
Press Release Writing
Press Release Distribution
Blog Commenting
Implementation of Change
Report
Ranking Reports
Submissions Reports
Google Analytics Report
Traffic Report
Full Analysis Report

These are the utmost important things that the clients require. so you must create a checklist like this and see if you know these things or not.