Promote blog to increase traffic

Do you know the addage -"Build it and they will come!" That's not true in blogging, don't expect people to read your blog just because it is there. If you want people to notice that your blog is there try promoting it, there are a lot of ways that you can do this. Ask your friends or family personally to read what you've written, make sure that they could get something out of it, not just your random rants. I guess you could use that Journalism motto - "Educates, informs and entertain." Because there's really no point if those three are not present in your blog. You could also promote it in your social networking site, if you have myspace, facebook, friendster, etc... tell your friends there that you have started a blog and let them read it and ask what they think about it. If you have twitter, the same thing just copy your blogs URL and tweet it and ask people who might be interested in reading your posts. There are a lot of ways for you to choose from on how to attract people to your blogs, all you need is to be creative. So Build it, Promote it and they will come! -access out, God speed!