I just finished skimming a book about Google Blogger. Much of the book focused on how to get your blog read. These were good old fashioned SEO practices I will share with you now.Note that text link ads might actually drop your Google page rank. Ouch. I got to make that money. But I did not know it would push me lower in the SERPS.
You should put keywords in your title. Add keywords to the first couple sentences of your blog post. Keywords should be part of your URLs and image names. Tags should contain your keywords.
Use keywords in your links, as well as around your links. Links within your blog help a little bit. Frequent posting is required. Comment on other blogs to get people to come to your own.
