Getting your blog into the search engines is no different than with a regular website. What you need are backlinks - links that point to your site from another site. The SEs will "find" your blog through those links.
it is same as you do efforts for your website. Geting backlinks from forum, directories & article directories.
YES! You will need to read up on how to optimize your blog. Do a search here at DP there are several good discussions on the subject.
Try to get backlinks for a quality site. update blog on regular basis with a good quality of article. You can use forum posting and placed a link in signature.
There's no difference in optimizing blogs and web site since they are now treated the same because they have almost the same features. The only difference is that blogs are easier to maintain than websites. To make a blog visible in SERPs, SEO is the answer.. Do everything you know about SEO like Link building, on-page and off-page optimization
There is no difference between website optimization and blog optimization. you can follow all the website optimization techniques in blog optimization. you can submit your blog to directories, search engines and as well as you can do all the traffic tactics.