10 Ways to promote your Blog

10 Ways to Instantly Promote your Blog for Free

1. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines.
When you ping a blog,you are telling the search engine that you have updated your blogcontent and that your listing should be refreshed. Weblogs.com is ablog update notification service that many individuals and servicesuse to track blog changes. Pinging your blogs to the search enginesis the fastest way to get the search engine robots to visit yourblog. Also, many people browse these sites to find something new.

2. Submit your blog address to blog search sites and directories
.You can submit your blog's url to websites such as Technorati,Daypop, Blogdex and Popdex. For a complete list of websites whereyou can submit your url, go to http://www.guidetorss.com

3. Set your blog to display RSS feeds and submit your blog's RSSfeed to the major RSS feed directories online. A good place to startis http://www.guidetorss.com which provides a list of the top RSSdirectories.


4. Put your blog URL in your email signature. If you're a regularat any online discussion forum, you can also add your url to yoursignature line at the bottom of each message you post.

5. Install a blogroll.
A blogroll is a collection of links to otherweblogs. Services such as Technorati spider your links to tellwho's linking to you and who you're linking to. If you showup onsomeone's Technorati link list for their site they're likelyto visit your site to see what you said, increasing your exposure.Blog owners can also visit your site to check it out if you show upon their referral logs.

6. Be an active commenter. Try to leave comments on the blogs thatyou regularly visit. Most comment systems also provide a way for youto leave a link back to your blog which begs a visit at the veryleast

.7. If you plan to have anything printed up, put your blog's webaddress on it. You can print your blog URL on business cards,stickers, leaflets, etc.

8. Take advantage of blog software features that help to promoteyour Blog. For example, if you're using Blogger, you can do this byturning on: "Email This Post", "Post Pages" "Site feed" and theBlogger Navbar.

These features will help attract new visitors toyour blog.9. Exchange Links with other Bloggers or blog owners. This isanother effective strategy for generating targeted traffic to yourblog for free. It involves contacting other blog owners for apossible link exchange partnership. All you have to do is locateblogs that are related to yours and contact the webmaster to swaplinks.

10. Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish and put your blog url in the byline. The `byline' is theshort paragraph that goes at the bottom of each article anddescribes who the author is and what they do. If you write goodcontent, your articles will be published by other webmasters andmany readers who like your article will go on to visit your blog.

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Chileshe Mwape writes for the US Banks Website:http://www.us-banks.org/. Find informative articles and news storiesabout banking and finance.. This article may be reprinted as long as all the above links are active and clickable