Well, you asked for it.
1. Many posts varied in length. 150 words, 250 words, 350 words
2. Listing your blog on search engines.
3. Foot traffic.
4. Internal linking
5. External linking
6. Popular topics of interest
7. Yearly updates and new formats
8. Consistent new content
9. Excellent organization of content
10. Continuing sagas, reasons for returning traffic
11. Daily feeds. Blogger.com has new gadgets on their software that promote this kind of content.
12. Links to other bloggers in specific
13. Materials that are specific to particular key words but more importantly key word phrases. Key words are "overused."