I have compiled a list of tips which really helped the ranking of my blog.

- Unique content. Search engines love unique content, especially when it is frequently updated. Unique content and updating your blog frequently will make your visitors and the se robots return again :).

- Permalinks. I recommend using this type of mod_rewrite. htt://yourdomain/category/post name. This is very SE friendly

- Outgoing links Have at least as possible outgoing links. This will give your site a maximal exposure for the robot that visits it.

- Ingoing links The anchor text of the ingoing links is very important. When submitting to a directory, instead of writing as title “My blog” write “Internet Marketing Blog” or “SEO Blog“. You will surely rank for “your blog”, but giving important keywords in the title can raise your se position for those keyphrases

- No sitewide links Do not put sitewide blogroll links. This will really hurt your site indexing, because the robot, instead of indexing your page will jump to the other one.

I hope this small tutorial will really improve the ranking of your blog.