Submit a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools
Now that you've verified your site ownership, it's time to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console in order for your site's ranking potential to improve more and more and for traffic to boom more than ever. Once done properly, every little effort you put in will work out for the best.
Publish Fresh, High-Quality, and Informative Content on a Frequent Basis
Content-writing is the most crucial part of building up a website in the sense that it lets you rank your site on time and makes you appear before the millions of competitors in the online world.
As you've learnt so far, Google loves fresh and informative content and wouldn't mind giving your site a good PageRank for providing what it cherishes on the most consistent basis.
Try to make all of your content highly-informative and engage your readers as much as you can. This will surely help you build more trust and credibility with the audience. Visit several niche-related authority blogs, read posts on those blogs and make sure you digest a lot of useful blogging ideas in order to improve your own blog.
Most sensible advise, well given.
You are perfectly right, in that I love communicating with as many WA family members to help and encourage, but I need to spend more time on my own progress, as I still have not completed my first website or started my first blog.
Best Wishes,
Leslie