How to promote website or blog

How to Promote your Blogs or websites?

Once you have setup your blog then you need to promote your blogs  in right and appropriate way. Use the following steps to start promoting your blog: 1) Submit your blogs URL to each major search engines Google, MSN, AOL, and Yahoo. Also go to http://www.1stopsubmit.com,  http://www.submitexpress.com &

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ 

and submit your URL. It will automatically submit your blog URL to over 50 search engines for free.  2) Open http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/  and submit your blog to as many of these blog a nd rss feed directories as possible. Use your  key phrase in the title and at least once in the description if you are able to enter one. This  is going to take many hours, but the effort is well worth it. 3) Open http://yahoo.com and set up an  account if you don't already have one.  Add your RSS feed to your "My Yahoo" account as a news feed you want to monitor. You will need to add RSS Beta to your My  Yahoo content if you don't have it. For more  info on how to do that, go here:

http://my.yahoo.com/s/rss-faq.html

and add it.  You will now add your blog into the RSS feed in my yahoo.  To do that, click on edit in the RSS feed section. Enter the URL of your blog. RSS will increase your bog's reach. It is important that you include your bog's content in an RSS feed to increase readership and distribution. 4) Go to http://www.feedburner.com  and subscribe your blog. 5) Its also necessary to submit  your blog to Internet directories  because people might find you through these.  One of the important web directories is http://dmoz.org/. 6) Submit RSS feed and Blog URL to prominent RSS and Blog directories.  To save your time use http://www.submitemnow.com 7) add your blog to  www.blogtoplist.com as well as www.blogsitezone.com website. User might come to your website from these resources. 8) Try to give your comment on the  highly traffic blogs; also put your blog  link in your name or at the end of your comment. It's one of the most important  factors to consider for newly created blog  to generate the traffic. 9) Try to right good quality  article related to your blog and submit it to free articles directory like http://www.ezinearticle.com, http://www.goarticles.com  or yahoo groups. 10) Join blogsoldiers.com,  it's important for generating free traffic.  This scenario work likes the following;  suppose you visited ten blogs in return  you will surely get 50% visitors i.e. you will get 5 number of visitors to your blog. 11) You can also join some  of the website which sent free  traffic to your site like HitnCash, TrafficSwarm & Blogexplosion. They work like energy booster for your blog.  Frankly telling I use to generate more than 500 visitors per day.  12) try to update your blog once in a week if not daily; it will give you upper  hand in terms of search engine ranking. Write few lines (400 words) of article and  post it to your existing blog regularly. 13) Register with Blog Search Engines - Search engines that specialize in blogs http://www.daypop.com/ http://www.blogvision.com/ http://www.blogsearchengine.com/ 14) Use the following service to popularize your blog http://www.blogwise.com http://www.bloghub.com http://www.blogdaisey.com  http://www.getblogs.com http://www.lsblogs.com http://blogdex.com/  15) Register with Tracking Services - These services note when a blog has been updated and publish an ongoing list. They even keep track of the most updated and most visited weblogs. Plus you get to learn what  pinging is. http://blo.gs/ http://www.weblogs.com/  16) Create and increase the "Why Must I Return" Value to Your Blog Everyone knows the fact that Blogs get a huge level of returning visitors because of its constantly updated content.  Why don't you add more interesting  items to that return value by having fixed periodical posts / offers, e.g. Monday Top 10 Tips, Picture of the  Week, Free Bonus of the Month, Free Daily Wallpapers, etc. to give them the absolute excuse to return  to your blog. As long as you can efficiently and appropriately increase that Return Value constantly, it is mostly guaranteed that you'll be  getting tones of repeated visitors, period. 17) Track Your Blog Tracking your blog does not have to be overly sophisticated usually a  simple free page counter like StatCounter.com, ActiveMeter.com,  Extremetracking.com or Sitemeter.com  will do the trick. Install (copy/paste)  the code into the html of your blog template and start tracking your visitors.  Its better to use a service which gives  you advanced traffic analysis, such as keyword tracking information, referral information, and search engine information.  Visitors, returning  visitors, and unique visitors should be  standard for any page counter service you choose.