As you probably know by now, on the web, if you build it, they won’t come. You’ve got to promote anything you do on the web to generate traffic to your blog. We recommend the following steps to promote your blogging empire online:

Step 1: Write Several Excellent Posts
Promotion doesn’t do much good unless you’ve got something excellent to promote. So, the first thing you need to do is to sit down, and over the course of 3-5 days, post 3-5 excellent, highly informative and interesting posts to your blog. This gives you a content base once you start promoting, giving others a glimpse of what kind of blogger you will be as they make the decision whether they will link into your blog.

Step 2: Link Into Your Blog From Every Page On Your Website
Classical search engines love to discover new material by following links. In fact, one of the biggest myths on the web is that you should be regularly submitting your sites to the search engines. Most engines actually penalize you for doing that. The ideal site, in their mind, is one that lots of other sites have found and created links into.

Step 3: Submit Your Blog Into The Blog and RSS Search Engines
Most non-bloggers are unaware, but there is a whole network of search engines that focus on listing blog and RSS feed content.

For the top 50 places to list your blog, go to Blogging for Business.