How do you get google to rank your blog articles?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Shaf Hussain Brady: Provide good content relevant and regular updates, posts. And share it in relevant places online.
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  Jody Nesbitt: rank for what, what have you already done, how have you identified your "rank criteria" ?
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  Dave Elliott: Wite better content on a better domain than the competition. Work out what a better domain looks like! Do you need more/better links, do you need better trust flow are you going up against people that just can`t be caught yet. Such an open-ended question, so very few sensible answers can be given.
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  Annie Guest House: Sign up for Webmaster Tools and submit a sitemap containing their urls.
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  Ronnie Lawson-Jones: im so glad posts like this are approved, always good to get a refresher