Well i started my blog 2 days ago now, i have manually submitted to google, msn and yahoo. I have the url in my sig at my forum that google crawls each day. Any other tips? i dont have much to spend on advertising maybe the odd $10 here and there. http://www.freebie-blog.com
Build nice, quality unique content and give readers reasons to comeback. It'll take some time to see traffic from SE's. Working on building links and be patient.