Blog Promotion

1. Unique Content & Useful Information. The first & most important factor for any blog or site is the Content. Content is the king. People always appreciate unique & useful information. Quality content can help you in your link baiting activity also, to create the buzz in the industry. Content is the only way of viral marketing, people will automatically come to your blog.
2. Submit your Blog to Blog directories. There are 100’s of free blog directories available on the net where you can submit your blog for free. It will help you to get back links also. But take care of the relevancy. Always submit your blog in to relevant directories. Here are some directories: Technorati,
   Blogarama.com,blogcatalog.com,eatonweb.com,ping-o-matic.com,blogtoplist.com,WeBlogALot.com, BlogHop.com,blogdir.com,blog-directory.org,blogroll.net,biggerblogger.com,blogrankings.com
3. RSS Feed: Always create RSS feed for your blog. You can submit your feed URL in to various RSS submission sites.
4. Social Book Marking Buttons: Give various options to your visitors to book mark your blog easily. These buttons are also helpful in viral marketing. Like if someone book mark your blog on del.icio.us and then share it with his/her network, then your content will automatically get publicized without any effort.
5. Participate in Relevant Forums: You should participate in forums relevant to your niche, but take care of the guidelines. Genuine participation can help you get the traffic so don’t try to spam, Otherwise, you will loose your credibility. Forum participation will also help you to get back links (from signature).
6. Social Communities & Networking Sites: Start creating profile on social community sites & build your network. Strong networking can bring lots of visitors to your site.
7. Join The Bloggers Groups: You can join relevant bloggers groups. By writing some quality post you can get traffic to the blog and some back links also.
8. Reciprocal Linking: This is a good technique to get back links to your blog. You can contact other blog masters to exchange link with your blog. But I will not advice you to participate aggressively in to these link exchange schemes.