Pinggoat.com is a excellent pinging tool. After you set it up to ping, bookmark the ping page and everytime your ready to ping your blog got to your bookmark.
I went from 1 to over 1200 uniques a month in just 1 month with my new Romanian blog in a very simple way: a lot of original content, written daily (sometimes 3-6 messages a day). Comments on some known romanian blogs and few blogroll exchanges. Hope to keep the growth
Let me know guys, if it is difficult to promote blog. How does the blog's promotion differes from a regular informational site's promotion?
What is needed to blog to become really interesting and visited?
If your writing is interesting, people will come to your blog. you can cheat with linking and forum posts if you want, but does that make your blog good or just gain some page rank?
There are many ways to promote a blog, basic link building, promotions, and etc. just maximize your time and effort and do some research to regarding to new trends and updates that can be helpful to your blog.
Guest post on other blogs has not yet been mentioned!
I guest posted on some top blogs, that helped me to build the traffic to my site.
I have written a list of 15 Ways To Bring Traffic To Your Blog, Some are pretty standard and many have been mentioned here, but some might find it useful.
Another way you can raise some awareness of your blog is to sell/give away some T-shirts and stuff, For Example: ProTycoon Goodies
I have given away some T-Shirts to other blogs as well as other fun things like mugs, so that in return they can promote my blog, by either wearing the shirt wherever they go, or by picturing themself in the shirt on their blog.
Has worked well for many blogs, and has got me so extra attention on some niche blogs.
1.post regularly
2.Interact with other bloggers(comments )
3. Use things like Digg , technorati , stumbleupon etc
4.Use RSS feeds.
5.Try to write your best article as guest post in a popular blog