Dear Morgan Yole
Increasing the "Rank" of your website, is an elaborate question in itself, and is based on lot of parameters (if not some). I believe, explaining it, would be out of the scope of a small post reply to do that.
But what i can do, is to give you some broad objectives / goals - which you should be targeting (A) in the Short Term, and (B) In the Long term.
(A) In the Short term - Say now to 90 days - You can do this -
1. Try being consistent on your Blog or website - publish regular content, even if its once a week - make sure that you post regularly, for once a week.
2. Try and write 1000 words to 2000 words genuine post - that way - you can give good genuine content to your visitors, and they would want to come back again to your blog / website.
3. Make Social media pages for your blog or website. If not on more, you should at least make it on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Initially, these are good enough to get your eyeballs.
4. Gather as many friends, as you can, on these social media profiles. Join related groups. Call for like minded people to join these groups.
5. Lastly - as soon as you write a blog post - share the link of those articles, on these social media profiles.
All this is enough for you to get initial eyeballs for the first 30 days.
(B) Long term - 90 days & Beyond -
1. Look for a good SEO tool, and invest some money in a good software. Some good SEO Software examples are - GSA Search Engine Ranker, Ultimate Demon, Xrummer, Scrapebox, and SENuke XCR. You can google these softwares, see some of their training videos on youtube and see which one is good for you, and decide.
2. Go for "Tiered Link Bilduing", using one, or more of these softwares. Tiered Link Bilduing, is a very scientific approach to SEO. Try and do google search for the term, there is lot of stuff available for you to go through. there are many good videos on it, on youtube as well. One of the video is from Mathew Woodward, where, he describes the whole Tiered link bilduing in detail, in an hour long video.
Implement the SEO Techniques detailed above. Take small baby step actions, but take them daily & on consistent basis.
I Hope this gives you a satisfactory answer to your question, to a certain extent.
Good luck !!!