The first and most important thing to rank high is to create quality content because that is just why someone visits your sites to learn something new and unique.
Now what really is the definition of quality content in blogging ?
Quality content is not about writing novels.Yeah, it's true your content should only be that detailed that it answers all the queries present in your readers mind so that he or she doesn't needs to Google anything regarding that topic again.
Appearance matters a lot too.A topic is usually written thousands of time's before but the way you write it makes it unique.As i mentioned above it's not about writing novels so make sure to give line breaks in your articles (most new bie's miss this part).
I guess that was enough about the content,Now let's move towards the meat of the topic.
Keyword Strategies to rank high in Google :
1.First of all choose a topic
2.Find out how often it get's searched,(you can use Keyword planner but i found it boring that is why i use This link .It is free and works great )
3.Now knowing the search volume isn't enough find out the competition.
4.Go to Google and search your selected keywords now check how many sites are competing for it( screen shot : http://go.imharvest.com/d )
5.Make sure to choose keywords with the lowest competition.Anything above 300,000,000 is not a good choice.
6.It's time to target your keywords in your article.
7.Make sure to have the keywords in title tag.
8.You should have it in every possible heading.
9.In the meta-description. (check out how you can have meta-description for each post : http://go.imharvest.com/e )
10.Make sure to have a keyword density of 1.50 % in the content .Now Wordpress users will find it easy to figure out keyword density but blogger users aren't that lucky.
but don't worry i have solution for you, you can use wordpress blogs that accept guest posts.I will recommend you this blog :
http://go.imharvest.com/f .
Now if you have placed the right keywords in the right places and wrote quality content.Your posts are more likely to rank high in search results.
one more thing , make sure you have your pic placed along with your content in search results (check screen shot to get a better idea: http://go.imharvest.com/g ).It really matters a lot you can increase your clicks by 50% with it, stats prove that.
If you want to know how you can get your pic placed along with your content read this tutorial : http://go.imharvest.com/h