SEO steps for a new blog

Well Good for your new blog.
First you can Start with ON Page Optimization like:
Meta Tags
Alt Tags
Headed Tags
Keywords Research
Sitemap.xml
robots.txt etc

Then You can Start promotion your blog through OFF Page Optimization like
Search Engine Submissions
Social Bookmarking
Directory Submission
Blog Commenting
Blog Publishing
Articles
Social Media etc

But before you need to keywords research related what are you promoting, your business relates or personal etc.


Thanks

@digidarts thanks for your advice. I will do these activities

For the newbies start with zero do both on page and off page SEO
Off-page SEO
1. Blog commenting.
2. Forums participations.
3. Guest posting.
4. Q/A sites participation.
5. Social media marketing.

On-page SEO
1. meta title.
2. meta description.
3. meta keywords.
4. alt tags.
5. heading h1,h2,h3...

You can help Google AdWord for your blog title and keyword. Write a blog with proper images, share your blog with all social media site also make a youtube video but before writing any blog check all blog related to your blog for reference only and remember don't copy any blog write unique content google loves this.
Hope this will help you...

First you concern about onsite SEO
1.Remove all duplicate contents if your content have
2.Add Meta Data Correctly
3.Add Relevant Keywords to Meta Descriptions
4. Give names correctly to images
5. Add Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions pages to the blog
6. Make Site url correctly
7. Add Social Media Buttons to the blog
8. Reduce Site loading time

Secondly You can think about Off site SEO

1. Do Guest Blogging to your niche
2. Do Blog Commenting
3. Do forum posting
4. Do directory submission
5. Do social bookmarking

First of all, you need to start with ON-PAGE SEO which is already mentioned below by my other friends(digidatrs,umakant13).

Things you need to check under on-page seo are mentioned below:-

Meta Tags
Alt Tags
Header Tags( H1 & H2)
Robots.txt
Sitemap
Google Search Console
Google Analytics
Duplicate Content
Webpage Speed
Mobile Friendly Website
Website Structure

After analyzing these important factors you can move towards Off-Page Activities.

Buddy, i agree with all my friends but i would like to recommend you to do smart work not hard work.
You can perform activities like:- Business listing if you have any particular address and location
Question/Answers by following guide lines.
Forums Posting by follwing guide lines
Content Posting.Try to focus on visual content
Social Media
Social Bookmarking

AND ONE LAST IS COMPETITORS BACKLINKS. SELECT SOME PRIME KEYWORDS THE SEARCH ON GOOGLE.COM. GET TOP 3 COMPETITORS THEN USE WEBSITE BACKLINKSWATCH.COM. PUT URL OF COMPETITOR AND GET BACKLINKS. THEN YOUR NEXT TASK WILL BE LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT i.e GENERATING BACKLINKS ON THAT LINKS.

I am sure if you will get backlinks from that links then you will get positive results very soon.

If you need any other suggestion, you can ask here any time.

Thanks

Its nice to see you about to SEO strategy that is very useful these days.

Definitely should avoid directory submission, social bookmarking, article submission, document submission.
What matter is forum participation, link exchange with other bloggers, guest commenting, business listing & classifieds.

you may follow all the steps listed in above comments but always reminds that don't try to use any spam or black hat techniques because only single step can be spoil your strategies or devote your website, blog on SERP..

Hi! Here is the list of activities, may be something new can be added to the list you already have!)

Off page SEO Activities:-

Search Engine Submission
Business listing
Business Reviews
Directory submission
Classified Ad posting
Profile Link Creation
Link Bating
PodCasts
Video submission
Infographics and image submission
PPT, PDF Document Sharing
Press Release
Article Submission
Forum Posting
Guest Posting
Bookmark your webpage's in popular social bookmarking websites
Blog Creation and Comments
Blogging and blog commenting
Web 2.0 Marketing
Micro site submission
Link wheel submission
Question and Answer posting
Run a Quiz or Poll

Wish you luck and happy holidays!

My advise is to focus on the content. If it's totally new you better avoid guest posts, directory submissions etc. Write lots of content. That's how you'd make traffic these days.

On-site optimizations like page speed, linking, sitemaps are pretty important too.

People that succeed with SEO do two things very well:
First, they identify SEO techniques that get them results.
Second, they put 100% of their resources into executing and scaling those techniques.
But you're probably wondering:
How do I find SEO strategies that actually work?
Well today I'm going to make it easy for you.
All you need to do is carve out a few minutes of your day and tackle one of the 21 white hat SEO techniques below.
1. Find Broken Link Building Opportunities on Wikipedia
2. Discover Untapped Keywords on Reddit
3. Update, Upgrade and Republish Old Blog Posts (This Increased My Traffic by 111.37%)
4. Copy Adwords Ads to Make Killer Title and Description Tags
5. Find A+ Link Prospects on All Top
6. Use Benefit-Focused Content Curation
7. Link Out to Authority Sites
8. Send Juice to Pages Sitting on Page 2 or 3
9. Add This One Word to Your Outreach Email…and Increase Your Response Rate by 45%
10. Write Mini Blog Posts for YouTube Descriptions
11. Reverse Engineer the Results on Page 6
12. Embed Long Tail Keywords In Title Tags
13. Hack Wikipedia for Keyword and Topic Ideas
14. Use “Best of” Lists to Find Awesome Link Targets
15. Publish Content With At Least 1,800Words
16. Remember the “First Link Priority Rule”
17. Create Your Own Keywords
18. Find Undiscovered Keywords With This Little-Known Tool.
19. Use Expert Roundups to Generate Links and Social Shares on Autopilot
20. Find Niche-Specific Link Building Opportunities Using Flippa
21. Use Facebook Ads for Keyword Research

Hope this helps.

Tons of recommendations for this. If your focused on off page here's this question covered pretty neat on Quora - https://www.quora.com/What-are-easy-...swer/Igor-Go-1

Nowadays the techniques in SEO have been changed, now the old school methods don't work as they used to do before. New techniques have been introduced in SEO and the SEO expert websites like Niel Patel and Backlinko try to teach the marketer how to use them, for example, they have introduced techniques like Moving Man Method Technique, Sky Scrapper technique and so on which are really helpful. They are surely going to help you as they are introduced by experts who have been working hard to teach people digital marketing(includes SEO), they work all the time on new SEO techniques to make it easier for people to rank their websites and blogs on search engines.

Search engine optimization it is evolving and becoming more sophisticated each and every year. Businesses are also adapting and becoming more aware of the need to implement the basics of search engine optimization (SEO).if you want your business to succeed with search engine optimization you will need to identify the techniques of search engine optimization that will get you good results and put all resources into executing those techniques. There are several search engine optimization techniques that can bring positive results to your business such as identifying target keywords, implementing branding efforts, focus on content creation(contentmart will assist you on creating good content through its skilled writers),committing to social networking, blog guest posting etc

There are tons and tons of information on SEO in the net, even in this forum.

For a start I recommend you go to this site https://yoast.com/

They have free WordPress plugin as well.

Next, you should do a thorough keyword research for your website.
Rank the righ keywords = money.
Rank the wrong keywords = no money.

All the best,

Albert

Now you'll be even more confused because most of things posted above either have nothing to do with SEO or just goofy IMer gimmicks to sell something.

Keyword Research
On-Page SEO
Build Backlinks
Analyze rankings

Do it all over again.

Don't forget to work on the ON Page of your website as it plays a major role in boosting its rank in Google search engine. After removing the errors of ON Page you can go for OFF Page of your website. This includes many techniques which helps in spreading the awareness of a website quickly.

In OFF Page technique, you can start with Blog posting, Article submission, Social Bookmarking, Forum posting, Guest posting & PBN. It will work a lot & pay you back after some time.

Is the content on your blog attracting links from authorities in your niche? If not I would quit worrying about off page tactics until your content is pulling it's weight.

Otherwise you're going to be stuck buying links.

You will be way better off figuring out how to create the content you need to so it pulls links in.

After that, it's all about effective link outreaches.

1. Overhaul, Upgrade and Republish Old Blog Posts (This Increased My Traffic by 111.37%)

2. Duplicate Adwords Ads to Make Killer Title and Description Tags

3. Find A+ Link Prospects on All Top

4. Utilize Benefit-Focused Content Curation

5. Interface Out to Authority Sites

6. Send Juice to Pages Sitting on Page 2 or 3

7. Add This One Word to Your Outreach Email and Increase Your Response Rate by 45%

8. Compose Mini Blog Posts for YouTube Descriptions

9. Figure out the Results on Page 6

10. Implant Long Tail Keywords In Title Tags

Do keyword research for your niche and write articles around them. Optimize your articles for those keywords. Make sure your content is original. I see at least some of your content is copy and pasted. Thats a big no no