As mentioned before one of your goals will be to collect as many links as possible. List your blog in a couple of the best blog directories.

Technorati.com is one of the oldest blog tracking sites. They index your rss feeds and provide information about other blogs that link to you

Blogflux is a typical directory but specializes in blogs and has many different categories to post your blogs in. It is together with Blogtoplist.com the most popular blog directory.

Best of the web is another directory that has its own subdirectory specifically for blogs. Worth submitting your site to.

Lsblogs is a similar popular blog only directory similar to the Best Blogs directory.