[pleeker]

Meta tags won't help with this.

There's no need to submit anything - whether it's a blog or a web site. The major search engines all do the vast majority of their site discovery by crawling links on web pages, blogs, etc.

So, rather than submit anything, you need to get links to your blog from other sites that are being crawled. The more you write on your blog, and the more you actively participate in the blogging community, the more likely someone will discover your blog and eventually link to it.

Join the discussion on other blogs. Usually when leaving a comment, you're allowed to include your URL. That alone should help people discover your blog. Just don't overdo it and spam all the other blogs.

Hope this helps.