it seems to me from my experiance that the best way to get people to come to you're blog is to really annoy someone or insult them and they end up talking about you and thus people are interested enough by that to come by. the experiance i base this on is the time when salbert became annoyed at the fact that i have advertising on my site and perhaps more so by the fact that i was going to many blogs and making a comment and then saying and i quote "oh and check out my blog at www.thereplacementblog.blogspot.com" he was so annoyed by this infact that he dedicated an entire post to me and thus my blog counter went up by 60 on that day whatsmore it seems to have had an good loung term effect as i often get ther counter going up by 40 + on any given day, however it is entirely possible this would have happened anyway it is even possible that my actions caused it to be less than it could have been however i doubt it, I tend to stand by the idea that any publicity is good publicity.