Definitely a great way to go! Having plenty of unique content on your website will also help.

Using Google webmaster guidelines and validating code are both great ideas. Google should try and adhere to their own guidelines.

Article posting to the same article directory all the time is alright. However you're better off to use a few of the top article directories and submit different articles using different titles and...

Great info! Thanks for the great tips! Blogs definitely seem to be more search engine friendly than typical websites.