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Try setting up a google webmaster tools account and submit an xml sitemap, this will help you tell Google about the pages on your site, it might help your site get indexed slightly faster. Also Building backlinks from high PR(above 5) sources or putting your links(not shorten edition) in your tweets would be really helpful for this purpose. Thanks.

First you blog should have unique information and secondly title should be attractive so that readers get attracted towards it! There are so many threads like this you can find similar topics just by searching. Make sure you have good content and people will naturally link to your blog. This is the best way to promote it. Although there are other ways such as article publishing, blog posting, and using social networking sites such as Digg and Twitter. use blog directories and do some link exchange. You can also write guest posts on another blogger's sites, that can help to drive traffic from a blog with more reputation.

backlinwatch & google webmaster tools : Use this tool to find all information about backlinks to a site.