10 Ways to promote your new blog

So you have now written your blog and you are really excited about it - trouble is what do you do now? Obviously, you now have to let people know you are out there - you need to publicise it. If you are not sure about that part, then courtesy of Blog Perfume, here are the 10 main ways to promote your blog:

1. Social bookmarking sites
Sites such as Digg and Del.icio.us grab traffic and have it head right for your blog. These are quite easy to use (so long as you don’t vote for yourself) – create a free account, write a description, add tags and the address to your blog, and voila! – With compelling headlines and descriptions, you can quickly have traffic to your blog.

2. Forum visiting
Visiting forums in your niche market is nearly as old as the Internet itself – but this works and it’s free. Participate in the forums with relevant (compelling) information that leads to what your blog is all about. Having a great signature line with a link to your blog is the key.

3. Free eBooks
Writing and offering free eBooks will also bring traffic to your website. Your eBook needs to be compelling, well written and chock full of useful information (otherwise, no one will visit your blog, thinking you’ve nothing real to say anyway).

4. Join Groups
Look at MSN, Yahoo and Google groups and find some that are relevant to your niche. Don’t spam them – enjoy the conversation and ease into it.

5. Video it
Create a video (or hire someone to do it) and submit it to one of the many popular video sites (such as YouTube) and find more traffic being directed to your site. It’s not a secret that video sites are incredibly popular and that this popularity is only growing each and every day – so get in on the action, create a compelling video and get more traffic to your blog.

6. Update regularly
Updating your blog regularly is very important. You have to continue updating with relevant information that is interesting and leads to more information yet to come. This will bring people back to your blog time and time again.

7. Blog directories
This is simple – submit your blog to blog directors for back links.

8. Really simple Syndication
RSS feeds are also incredibly popular and this allows your loyal readers to know when you’ve updated your blog (which is often and regular). It’s quite easy to RSS your blog and this allows your readers to know when you’ve posted more information that they want to read.

9. RSS directories
Don’t forget, now that you’ve syndicated your blog, to submit to RSS directories as well.

10. SEO your blog
you need to optimize your blog with keywords in H1 tags in your headlines and throughout your blog in hyperlinks.