I have not paid too much attention to the publicity aspect of writing my blog. I enjoy writing and have a few regular visitors and commentators, but see it more as a personal endeavor rather than an attempt to be popular or change the world. So, I am probably not the best person to recommend a way to increase readership of your site, but here is something that happened to me that might be of interest.

I had a visit by a new reader who found my article on the dangers of using antibiotic hand soap in your home. http://xrl.us/7ug3 This visitor then read and submitted another post on my site to Digg. Someone else read the same article and did the same. The average page views for that post had been in the range of 25 -30 per day. After the Diggs, the visits jumped to over 700!

This lasted only a couple of days before the views of that article dropped back down, but it was very interesting to see how Digg actually works.

-Will