The major steps to promote a blog in intenret is explained below. The step by step process is enough to get good quality back links to the blog and improves the PR. More over to high PR,you will get a high traffic to your blog. The steps are:

1. Submit your blog to blog directories

2. Submit to general web directories

3. Blog comments on relevant blogs (Do respect and no spamming)

4. Submit blog to social book marking sites "Digg, Reddit, Mixx,google bookmark, yahoo      bookmark, del.icio.us  "

5. submit articles to article directories

6. Submit to foreign directory submission service

7. Put  blog as forum signature and minimum five posts per day.

8. Submit to pinging sites like pingomatic.com

9. To submit Blogcatalog

10. Create a sitemap and submit it to google.

11.Press releases and email signature

12.Fresh and quality content is the most important factor. Keep producing unique content.

13. Ping the blog at Pingoat.Com or use OnlyWire.Com. Join Twitter.Com is also advisable.

I assure you after following these steps your blog will receive decent amount traffic.