New blog - need tips for submitting/RSS/traffic

I have just made a blog (using wordpress) and I have wrote a couple of articles. My articles has been written with SEO in mind, very keyword rich etc. I've planned to write at least one article a day, to make Google come back often and rank me high.

It's now time to submit my blog to relevant directories etc. I know dmoz is important, so I'll start off with that. What other places should I submit?

My blog has an RSS feed, but I don't know how to take advantage of this. I have read it's a good thing for SEO, but what should I do? Should I submit the RSS-feed url to some kind of RSS directories?

Any other tips for a new blog?
What should I do and not do regarding submiting, etc.?

Thanks for a great site and community!

After writing in your blog, hit pingomatic.com to let the world know you have an updated entry.

Feedburner will help avoid format issues/conflicts (rss, atom, etc.) and offers some useful bells-and-whistles for bloggers.

Don't forget to ping Yahoo too. They love RSS. I use this one: http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://www.mysite.com/blog
Of course, your blog's URL will go at the end.

Good Luck!

you can maybe find this list interesting:

www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm

there are 2 lists, one for blogs and the other for RSS/Blogs

good luck

There are two really good blog search engines that has excellent features,

http://www.blogpulse.com/index.html - searches by articals and includes time of posts

http://www.technorati.com/ - live search results by artical/topic from most recent post to oldest

just thought of another, http://bloglines.com/ - similar

each of them use your RSS feed but you have to add them to thier database.

I would also start exchanging links with other blogs!

Other tips would be make sure you enable search engine friendly URLS if you have such a feature, if not check with the forum from where your blog was created for plug ins and hacks. Another good plug in would be to put keywords/phrases on your headers.

I just saw you use wordpress, GOOD CHOICE! Go to
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins for plugins and hacks

and http://wordpress.org/ for support and forums.

Good Luck!

I believe pingomatic is the default for wordpress isn't it? /shrug - I'm not a wordpress expert so I might be wrong.

G-Man