Keyword Research: Do your keyword research first. Choose/target such keywords which are having high search volume and low in competition by using keyword planner.
On Page: Optimize the pages with relevant keywords (titles, metas, headers), configuring your XML sitemap and robots.txt file
Link Building: Try to build backlinks from high PR sites and do blog post regularly because it will make google bot visit blog everyday and must make sure that google bot will find something new on the blog and grab the data on daily basis.