There are various techniques you can make use of after you publish your blog in order to promote it. You have to promote your blog to find more visitors to your blog.
Social bookmarking sites are available in the internet for you to share your content in your blog. You have to download these icons and paste them in your blog so that you can post your link. These bookmarking sites have lot of users and they can send more visitors to your blog. You have to provide interesting and valuable content for visitors to come over and over again to your blog.
One of the effective method to promote your blog is to e-mail brief description of the content of your blog to your friends and family members and also to people you know. They will be interested to read your writings and contents. After visiting your blog, they will leave comments. This will also pave the way to have a discussion forum in your blog.
Another place is online boards and forum where you can link your blog. You have to find similar type of forums or discussion boards which are relevant for them. If you are writing about blog marketing, you have to find similar places to link your blog. Otherwise they will ignore your blog and it is waste of time.
If you search the internet, you can find lot of places to link your blog free of charge.