There are many things to do to make your blog popular: first, you need to write good unique qualiy content and update your blog regurlarly, try to know what visitors want by analyzing your blog with eyes of the visitors.
Good design is a plus, i suggest you to install wordpress.org, there are a lot of things you could add/customize instead of Blogger...
Linkbuilding in social sites, social bookmarketing, dofollow blog (don't spam!), signature forums, create a twitter and facebook page, ect...