Promote your blog
What is the use of having a blog and nobody is reading it? That’s why you need to promote you weblog. Let people know that you are here on the internet with a great blog! The only way to do this is promoting your blog. So take a little time for this because it is very important. First thing you do of course is letting family and friends know that you have your own great blog!
How to promote your blog ?
Get listed in search engines specially made for blogs. These websites list your blog on their site so you will be exposed to a lot of potential readers. This takes a little time but this is very effective, if more websites have a link to your site this means other search engines like google think that you have made a popular site so they place your blog on top of their search engines results. you find a list of blog promotion websites below on this page.
RSS feed
Also make sure search engines for blogs know the URL of your rss feed. An rss feed is a url with a piece of code. If people place this url on their site they automatically see the headlines of your most recent topics on their own site or in their rss reader program. You can get an rss feed url when you are logged in your blog control panel. They also know when your site is updated automatically. Letting people know your blog is updated can also be done here:
http://www.ping-o-matic.com(use this every time you updated your blog, ping function is also available in your blog control panel)
Websites where you can promote your blog:
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
http://www.feedster.com/add.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
http://www.weblogs.nu/directory/submit.php?add=top
http://www.bloguniverse.com/
http://www.bloghop.com/addblog.htm
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php
http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
http://www.webworldindex.com/
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
http://www.blizg.com/
http://reader.rocketinfo.com/
http://www.diarist.net/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://www.blogwise.com/bycountry.php
Tip
This is one of the most complete website there is for promoting your blog! On this website you find links to all the websites where you can promote your blog. If you take the time to submit the link to your blog on all the websites listed on the following website be prepaired to tons of visitors !