Blogging one way that works the best for reaching your targeted audience. There's no doubt about that. However, the main issue that bloggers have, in this day and time, is the inability to get traffic and exposure to their blogs. Bringing the correct the right type of targeted audience to your post is tremendously important. This is because without that, your blog won't be successful. In order to achieve that, as a blogger, you should seek out to network with other bloggers. Obtain referral traffic by asking for links. Obtaining a backlink from another related blog will aid you tremendously. It will not only get your blog noticed more, but it will directly get more eyes on your blog by the search engines.
Most importantly, always participate in the blogging community. All the major bloggers have one common trait. They are always blogging. If you want your posts to be linked to by other bloggers then you must always remain an active blogger. When you ask another blogger for a link, then he will surely go to your blog and see what it is about. So when they do so, it's your job to make them feel that you actually 'walk the talk'. Do not let them form the opinion that this is not something you do on a regular basis and it is not that special to you. Your content will only be taken seriously when you blog is up to par.
Secondly, you should keep track of your link requesting method at each step. If you can tell that particular kinds of links are getting more exposed, this says that you must write even more posts on that specific subject. The more you follow up on this subject, the better material you will be able to offer other blogs at a later time. Every blog that does not want your link, for whatever the reason, should tell you something. Also, when you really know what you are doing, all of your link requests will be accepted.
Last but not the least; you'll learn from experience and get better at asking links from other bloggers. You will know which bloggers in your niche will accept your link requests when alerted. You will find out what types of links will get the most response from the bloggers in your related market. So ensure that you learn at every step and make your methods better. If you start to see that a specific member of your blogging community is not responding to your link requests, maybe you should shop sending them to that blogger. You might be irritating them or they just are not interested. So if anyone has requested that you stop sending them links, then you do what they have requested.
Basically, starting a blog is not that hard, even writing the articles is easy. But, when it comes to promoting it, you must do all that you can to get your blog links out at the right time.