Drive traffic to your new Blog

You've just started your new blog. You've realized after posting for a few weeks that you have had no visitors.
Problem is that no one knows the blog exists and it has no importance on the web, to anyone but your self.
What to do? Well you need to do a few things to start making your blog more publized. A few things you can do to start building traffic.

First, setup your google webmaster tool to point to the new site address. This will give you an idea of how your site is being seen on the web by the search engines. You will need to verify your site with the META tag verify key that google gives you.
Submit your new address to the search engines.
Setup google anaylitics now, it will help you break down how traffic is coming in. Where the traffic is coming from, etc.

Second, If you use blogger.com make sure you have your site feed turned on. Burn your feed with www.feedburner.com. This has a bunch of extra cool tool you can use to add a RSS feed subscription to your blog and also a RSS e-mail feed. It also will Ping out your new blog submission.

Third, signup and claim your blog a Technorati.

Fouth, take your blog entries and turn them into articles and post them to the article sites and referrence your blog address in the resource box.

Fifth, Label your posts with the important keywords in each of your blog posts.