I think there is no latest technique, everything is same as before. Just like before content is the king and now social media marketing plays a vital role also in SEO.
Quality fresh content and backlinks from high PR websites should be best for SEO in 2014. websites should be optimized well offpage and onpage as well.
There is nothing like new strategies is going on this year, If you want to exist in the top rank of Search Engine Result Pages, just be original. Original in the sense, keep your content fresh and regularly update your website according to search engine updations. You will be surely in the top results.
We have so much technique in SEO. Newly we can do about.me, CMS website creation, Email Marketing, B2B marketing in Pepagora, alibaba, etc.. and do social Media Marketing also.