Blogging without promotion is an almost useless effort, haha.
I remember in my early steemit days, I have no friends at all in this platform. I was swimming alone in this big big ocean of content. But then I start to reaching out some big account on the Trending page. I left one or two comments there. I hope they would notice me. And of course I failed with that strategy. Although there were some whales kind enough to tip me a little $ on my comments...
Then I realize that people are using discord a lot in this platform. I never use it before. I gave it a try. PAL was my first server, their upvote bot is nice. From PAL, I met several steemian, and I found out that there are many other groups, with their #self-promotion channel.
From PAL, I also hear about steemitworldmap, because I was writing about travelling back then. Steemitworldmap is an app that let your post tagged in a map. The great thing is, they have their curators, so they will look at the post that use the app, and featured it if the content is good. This is very cool way to promote our post. And their curators are friendly. I remember one of their curator was telling me one or two thing in comment, to make my post better.
Another big discord server that really help me would be Curie (yeah, they really dig into their #self-promotion channel, at least, I always do that). Whaleshares also do a really great job on curating post on their #postpromotion channel ( I got my post picked once).
And of course, A.S.A.P.E.R.S, I really love their server. It's a great community that will make our blog have worthy comments and engagements.
So, to conclude, to promote our blog is to reach out other blog/community via comment, or discord.
P.S. Lately I curate a lot. And I start to abandoned my blog and my engagement... But turns out, curating cool content to get better rewards is a fun thing to do.
Curating can be just as rewarding as blogging, if you are good at it - which I'm not, lol.
Thanks for reminding me about steemitworldmap. I used to use their tag a couple of months ago, but I completely forgot about their existence :0)