This blog isn’t mine, but it outranked neil patel on a few guides. I use his methods for my clients blog.

Each blog reaches you how to improve a blog. It’s possibly the best non-major blog on blogs, and it’s written and fun to read.

There’s a few tools mentioned, but for a beginner I would say check it out.

http://www.stealwhat.works

Let me know if it helped.