What's the intent of your blog? If it's to make money or not? Use social media like Facebook and Mayspace to find communities of people interested in what you write about and introduce yourself.
If it's a Personal Blog then try finding people on Facebook and use the Networked blogs Application. There is Also Mybloglog Blogcatolog and join a Web Ring as web rings are a very good way to Promote a Personal Blog
submit to directory,.. link exchange, article submit,comment in other blog and leave your sign,.make good quality content and finally create some contest ...
Normally I just submit to social bookmark site and giving comment to some establish blog.. at the same time make your blog useful to reader by giving valuable information to them.. not just personal story
You can also download the StumbleUpon tool bar and submit your site to it and hope people like the content and will click the like button. I once got 30,000 unique visitors from it. If the content is fair you might get anywhere from 30/60 unique in a day, but out of those you might get a repeat visitors.
You have to try to figure out who your audience may be and take it from here. It also help having some kind of focus point. I.e. why did you start this blog? I find writing in relevant forums helps bringing traffic. For instance, I deal with immigration subjects, so once in a while I go to various immigration forums and answer question with the link to my blog in the signature.
If you want to promote your personal blogs, whether its for you to make money through ads in your site or just to promote it and have a lot of visitors in your personal blog site..Just do on page and off page SEO for your personal blogs.
I promote my personal travel blog by using SEO techniques. For instance, I wrote a post about restaurants in Terminal 7 and JFK. I entitled it 'Where to eat in JFK' and I get good search results on that question
I used to have a personal blog I would always use that I don't really take care of anymore. I worked on it for about 2 months and I had gotten to the point where I was getting 2500 visits per month which isn't that much but it's not bad. To get that many visits I would find other blogs related to my blog in a certain way and make blog comments on 100's of different blogs. This really got traffic coming so I suggest you blog comment a lot. Submit your site to StumbleUpon and other sites. I suggest creating a twitter account and using it to promote your site. Twitter worked pretty good for me. Another thing you can do is make a guest post on other blogs similar to yours. Hope this helps!
Yeah! i also run similar kind of personal web blog! its hard to gain traffic but if you able to do quality postings & manage to promote your site over different top relavant websites then you could make good use of your personal blog
Hundreds kinds of promotion can be found over the internet. For new blog, you had better do blogwalking, and give comments, They will return to your blog and give comments, too.