Hi - I do this on Google for a living so can offer some insight: 1) Get some links to your site from other sites. Don't just spam forums with your link - offer to write guest articles for other blogs but request they credit your site [this has the additional benefit of driving traffic to your site. In Google's eyes this is means your site has quality content if you are being put on other 'high ranking' blogs 2) Put your blog on social media - make a facebook page for your blog, have a twitter account that links new articles make a tumblr account etc. Again this links back to point 1 regarding additional links from external sites. My hot tip for the moment is make a Youtube video that describes your site - Google owns youtube but is loosing money on it so they are trying to drive more traffic to the site by putting videos into search results (typically near the top). Takes about 20minutes to make a 30 second video and edit it but you really do see results! 3) Do NOT copy content from other site in large amounts - Google has a good algorithm for recognizing original content and if something is copied in large quantities you are pushed back down the rankings. 4) Make sure the coding of your site is up to scratch - no loose HTML tags, the "alt" tags on images are filled in etc etc. Again this is fairly standard stuff but the Google algorithm only 'sees' your site as raw code so make sure it is perfect The main thing is just to make sure you have good, original content that people share around (it helps having twitter/facebook buttons on your page to help share the links). The more popular your website becomes the higher it goes in the rankings. Much of the above is fairly standard - what is the area/subject topic your blog is in? If the topic is fairly competitive it is hard to break the "top 5" in Google. Good luck!
