How To Make Your Blog Popular

Here are some common ways to get traffic to your website:

1. SEO techniques (i.e., linkbuilding, choosing profitable and relevant keywords for your site, etc).
2. Pay per click advertising
3. traffic exchanges (feel free to PM me if you want a full list of traffic exchanges I use). If you go that route, you will want to create a splash page for your website, and plan on spending at least 2 hours a day surfing other peoples' ads and sites for best results (ideally, you should go for 1000 credits per day minimum for optimum results).
4. putting your website url in your signature file in forums like this one and participate. Warning: avoid forums where sig files are not allowed or where linking even to your own website is forbidden. Any other ones is fair game. Myspace has forums that you can participate in, by the way (pretty convenient if you are looking for forums to join).
5. offline promotion. I am actually kicking around this idea myself. You could put up fliers about your website, put ads in the newspaper if you have the money, buy and distribute business cards (vista print, for example offers custom business cards), setting up kiosks at malls or booths at fairs where welcome, putting ads on cars, etc. Also, word of mouth could be your friend among your warm audience (such as showing off your ssites to friends).
6. article marketing (tends to be another popular tactic). Beware: if your article looks more like a sale pitch, it will get rejected, and so you will have to mask your promotion efforts with them.
7. blogging (I use blog spot, but you could also create blogs via myspace, wordpress, etc)
8. Social networking sites- note that you will have to mask your promotion efforts with these sites due to anti-commercial use policies.
9. Including your links in your signature file on the email programs you can use. Also, both hotmail and yahoo have autoresponders that you can set up that includes information about your site.
10. Hiring people to promote your site for you and split your earnings. I have installed a revenue sharing program for 2 of my websites, which aims to encourage my visitors to refer other visitors by offering 30% of the commissions I make from those transactions.