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Here's what works exceptionally well for me:
1) Unique page title - should be keyword focused, but not a string of keywords. Write it so that it encourages your target audience to clickthrough from the SERP. The keyword targeting here should include your primary keyphrase.
2) Keyword-focused, yet concise page name - this should differ from the page's title, preferably focus on a highly-related keyword to your primary keyphrase, or a variation of the primary keyphrase.
3) Add great content - forget keyword density -- write naturally. From my experience, this is the only way to write content effectively. However, purposely include phrases that are related to the topic at hand as well as your primary keyphrase (sparsely). For instance, if you're writing about SEO, you may include words like, 'marketing', 'promotion', 'company', 'expert', 'service', etc. Basically, words that would likely come up in a discussion about SEO -- integrate those into your page. As far as the 'primary' keyphrase -- I might mention it a couple of times, and maybe mix up the order a bit, but I hardly focus on it within the actual content.
4) Build internal links using varied anchor text - Depending on the setup of your site, some pages are likely more important that others. If this is the case, it's better to have more internal links pointing at your important pages than your less-important pages. I'm not saying go hog-wild here, do it naturally, but relevent link building works even when you're dealing with on-page links.
As far as what I didn't mention:
Meta description - include this, but keep each page's description unique. I put no stock in the value of the meta description for SEO purposes in major engines, but it does help give your dynamically-generated sites with identical top-of-page content something fresh to show search engine users (instead of "Home About Us Services Contact", etc -- not everybody will know what I'm saying here).
Meta keywords - I use them sometimes, but I probably shouldn't -- I've not seen any SEO benefits here in a long, long time. I really see no value in adding a string of keywords to your page's meta content.
Headings - for page structuring, I say use them. For SEO purposes, not so much. Maybe they hold a bit more weight than non-heading content, I know they seemed to when I looked into it a while back... but it wasn't anything substantial. However, I absolutely suggest that you use headings (without keyword stuffing) for longer content -- as search engines are better able to parse a website's structure (footer/header/sidebar/content body) -- headings potentially could become more important in the future. This is just a guess on my part though.
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