What are some good ideas for how to market a new independent blog?

[Dave]

My initial idea for marketing a blog (http://davidamills.net) is to use Yahoo! Answers to slowly acquire visitors without exploiting the users here. I thought it would be best to do this by answering questions and listing my website as a source to gather further information on the topic. I would then write a blog post about the answer to the question along with any extra relevant referenced information cited.

Then, I stumbled across DriftingGray's "Unidentified creature, survey continued......?" post on Yahoo! Answers. It occurred to me that one of the links to the image he posts inside of his question leads to his photo bucket account. If he were a photographer looking to show his work to others, this method would have worked in my case. Because, I proceeded to look at some of his other photos afterward.

Anyway, I'm going to pose the question on Yahoo! Answers now... "What are some good ideas for marketing a new independent blog?" Any help is appreciated.