Each of the new blogger coming into the field of bloging aims to grow his blog and reach a larger range of constant visitors and subscribers. Most of these new bloggers have no promotional ideas at the start but as the time pass they learn basics. An idea to do this in a better way, you should remain involved in touch with other blogs like johnchow dot com. For promoting your blog at the very start, I have few tips that I learned from my experience and also by continuous reading on net.

1. Produce quality content

What you need to focus on is quality content on your blog or site. Let’s suppose your link building or traffic generation processes produce some traffic on your blog but content on your site does not sooth your visitors, they will not bother to come back on your site. For this best technique is to get involved with your visitors by starting contest on your blog, by replying their comments and most importantly by following their suggestion for which you must have a feedback option on your blog. Remember a poll on your blog can also work to some extent in this regard.

2. Inform search engines and blog aggregators like Technorati

When you site or blog is ready to be launched first and the most important work is to inform search engines and some aggregators like technorati. Remember real traffic is one which comes from search engines. To inform search engines abut your blog you should use ping services. 

3. Social Bookmarking

Every webmaster knows the importance of social bookmarking to gain good traffic. You should send your content to social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, stumbleupon etc. Traffic from these sites is always guaranteed.

4. Participate in Yahoo Answers

These days another most popular way of getting traffic on your site is by answering in yahoo answers and also in LinkedIn Answers. Here you can give your url along with relevant keywords to promote your site in a better way.

5. Participate in conversations

For quality bloggers a must done thing is participation in conversation on other blogs with same niche as yours. For this don’t just post the story but remain engaged with followers and let the conversation be expanded for better outcomes. Ask some positive questions and call your readers to some engaged reaction.

6. Submitting to Article Directories

I am very much in favor of sending my articles to article submission directories like Ezinearticles. This is because such directories only accept quality articles with keyword rich content. Maintaining this high standard rank these articles very high in search engines with that particular title and keyword, thus in turn generates good and most importantly targeted traffic to your blog.

7. Posting in forums

To generate some good traffic, you should be very active. Become members of some renowned forums like digitalpont, sitepoint etc. Make postings in your relevant topics by answering people problems. Make sure not to give direct links in your answer posts as other members will not like your way of participation. Be positive and spread the words which attract people. Post your links in signatures and try to concentrate on your specific niche.

8. Leave comments on other blogs

If you are already visiting other blogs of similar niches (which you must visit), then you should put two to three extra seconds to post a comment on the post which you read there. This will surely bring traffic to your site. Another way of keeping visitors in touch is to get mybloglog widget and try to visit the blog of those people who visits yours.

9. Translator plugin

One of the on blog tips is to install Translator plugin. This will help visitors of other languages to remain in touch and keep visiting the blog to get useful information in their own language.

10. Blog Design

Finally, when you have every thing in your list, why not give some attention to visitors who has come to your site. In this regard blog design comes first. Try to get an attractive design and customize it to your requirements to keep regular visitors in touch. For this a better way is to design your own theme which will be unique, submit it to css galleries and wordpress theme showcase sites. This will help to attract more visitors.

Wish you best of luck with your blog!