Creating a Weblog , popularly known as blog for various diverse reasons has become a lark these days.Though many are into actually creating a blog , seldom do people concentrate on actually optimizing the blog. This is one of the ignored areas by those who maintain a blog.Just as it is necessary to optimize a site,it is important to focus on optimize a blog.

Some tips to optimize your blog.
-Ensure that the contentof the blog is latest and informative.
-Provide content which attracts the interest of the blogger.
-Submit your blog to blog directories.
-Include RSS feed subscription buttons to blogs.
-Drive traffic to you blog through social bookmarking sites.

-Increase backlinks and drive traffic to your blog by posting comments in other blogs.
Utilize your blog URL as the hyperlink.
-Post in forums using blog URL as the signature.
-Ping your blog everytime you update fresh content.

Indepth discussions regarding optimizing a site can be viewed in the blogger forum
in the recent post... bloggeries.com/forum/blog-marketing/12034-ways-generate-traffic.html.

A similar discussion,not very recent is available in the SEO forum
forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=2267&page=3