For making your blog popular you need to follow few simple instructions.
Find a general subject range that your blog will be about. Write a new post at least once every day. This article must be genuine and accurate. Go other similar blogs and post your valuable suggestions and comments. If you do this, for sure they will most likely visit your blog to leave a comment.
Try to join as many blogs and content writing website as a guest writer, most of the content related blogs will give a link back. This is a good technique to attract the other site readers to your site. This will help to get your blog established. Try to add a open forum in your blog, you can ask questions and talk something about your good new ideas etc, try to share your thoughts with other people and take comments. Try to end your every post with a question mark. More people will participate in this forums and it will bring good popularity for your blog. Like this you can join in other website open forums too. Try to leave your blog link on the comments. Important please do not try to spam any of the open forums.
Be friendly with all your bloggers and participants. Join major social networking websites like Twitter , Facebook, Linkedin etc. It will bring more attention to your blog. Try to submit your blog RSS to other RSS submission directories, this will bring more traffic and website visitors.