14 Ways to Promote Your Blog

by Rasha Saeed (Roseate)

1- Submit Your Blog's Address To Blog Directories: There are so many blog directories, so submit your blog to as many directories as you can/find.
2- Submit Your Blog To Technorati: Submit your blog to Technorati.com , and use technorati tags in your post to increase your visitors.
3- Ping Your Blog To The Search Engines: Ping after each post! ... When you ping a blog, you are telling the search engine that you have updated your blog content and that your listing should be refreshed.
If you are using blogger then you are automatically pinging weblogs.com....but ping more sites too such as; Ping-O-Matic, Blogflux.com, etc...
Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the search engine robots to visit your blog. Also, many people browse these sites to find something new.
4- Submit Your Blog's RSS Feed To RSS Feed Directories: Set your blog to display RSS feeds and submit your blog's RSS feed to the major RSS feed directories online.
5- Exchange Links: Exchange links with bloggers and other sites too. That will also help you increasing your backlinks and PageRank.
6- Join Blog Communities: Join as many blog communities as you can eg: MyBlogLog.
7- Promote in Mylot: Mylot is a great community with thousands of visitors per day, so joining it for free and puting your link in your profile, as well as in your posts/replies will definitely increase you site's visitors....Plus MyLot pays you for your posts ;) http://www.mylot.com/?ref=Roseate
8- Digg Your Posts: Use digg.com site to digg your stories (posts), use an attractive description to describe your post. This will increase your site visitors.
Another great site is stumbleupon.com.
9- Put Your Blog's URL In Your Email Signature: If you send emails regularly this might help too.
10- Put Your Blog's URL In Your Forum's Signature: If you post in online discussion forums, always add your url to your signature line at the bottom of each message you post. You may also add a small description about your site.
11- Be An Active Commenter: Try to leave comments on the blogs that you regularly visit. This way you get a link back to your blog in each comment, as well as getting bloggers to know you more.
12- Take Advantage Of Blog Software Features: Take advantage of blog software features that help to promote your Blog. For example, if you're using Blogger, you can do this by turning on: "Email This Post", "Link to this Post" "Site feed" and the Blogger Navbar. These features will help attract new visitors to your blog.
13- Write Articles Or Free Reports For Other Webmasters To Publish: Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish and put your blog's url in the Resource Box. The "Resource Box" is the short paragraph that goes at the bottom of each article and describes who the author is and what they do. If you write good content, your articles will be published by other webmasters and many readers who like your article will go on to visit your blog.
14- Pay Per Click Promotion: If you have some cash you can promote your blog using pay per click search engines such as Yahoo Search and Google Adwords. I don't advice PPC for beginners.