@quicklearn That is the holy grail of blogging! How do I get my blog recognized? The answer is complex I am afraid is not easy without some effort on your part.

There is so much content out there that you need to raise above all that noise and be heard. Today, it is like a stream never ending just running seemingly endlessly. We jump in and jump out whenever we fancy take what we need and let the stream flow by.

Find your industry pain points and write about those. Identify who are the players in your industry. What are they writing about? Who is following them? You need to see who your competitors are who is linking to them.

Once you have the data you’ll have a mountain of ideas to begin writing some compelling blog pieces. Try posting these daily (Tip:use an editorial calendar). It is proven the more you post the better.
Another tactic would be to guest blog. Write some compelling articles for others, position yourself as the expert and over time you will be that go to expert that will drive traffic-sales.  

 @erikdeckers I have to agree.  I started a blog on Life, Stress and Humor in December and wanted to get a good audience so that I could start using it for business.  I have been finding others that blog about similar things and other things that I am interested in.  If it makes me smile or laugh I let them know why.  If it touches my heart I tell them why.  If it is something I feel strongly about I tell them and usually only if I agree.  If I disagree and feel the need to comment I usually start out with “You have stated your point clearly, but I must disagree.”  I then tell them why without name calling or negative comments.  I then thank them for there willingness to share. 

I sent emails to my friends and family inviting them to read my blog.  Some of started following but most have not.  I have also started talking about what I am writing about with those in my inner circle.  I only have about 44 followers, but I think that is quite a few for a beginning bloger in only 3 or 4 months.  I am still working out what gets the most hits, but I seem to be doing better. 

You can find my post at http://www.myoxisamoron.wordpress.com.  Post the link to yours and I will come check it out. 

The WordPress community can be tight and fearless.  These folks (WP advocates) will go to the mat for the platform if any derogatory or even suggestions for other platforms are mentioned, many times.

You can play off this tight knit community by wandering through WordPress Blogs. Follow as many as you can find that pertain to the same type of business you have, make intelligent comments that add VALUE to any blogged article. This can be a fun activity; a learning process; and help you discover how others are gaining popularity for their blogs.

As @quicklearn already stated, interaction with other blogs will help you with yours.

One last item you may want to try out – If you are a twitter lover, give either paper.li or the tweeted times a go. THIS can bring new followers to your twitter-verse and possibly readers who will look forward to your blog posts.  I have a website here: Buddy Bulletin and a blogger blog here: Buddy Bulletin Blog to help me broadcast the newspapers. I have my newspapers set to update at 1:00 am daily so fresh content is aggregated each and every day from my followers at Twitter.  The flagship paper.li newspaper is here: The Buddy Bulletin.

Just as an example, I have 10 paper.li newspapers (the max allowed) and one tweeted times.  I gain new followers every day from utilizing these platforms.

From one twitter account, I broadcast for my clients as well, their businesses, blogs, sales, etc. so have a fairly diversified following. Not too big to be unmanageable as yet, but Hoot Suite is my choice for management of twitter streams.

I said all that say this: Advertising your blog posts is mandatory and wherever you do that, do it to the max allowed without irritating your followers. 
Build relationships with any platform. Once people know YOU, they will want to read what you have to say.
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Also, if you do not have solid analytics, use an URL shortener and track what your best referral sources are.