Lesson 11: Promoting your blog

There are many ways to promote your blog or website. Here are a few:

Submit your site to Directories

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=directories
http://www.ringsurf.com/
http://www.BulletMail.com

Get Reciprocal links
http://iwr.com/free/reciprocal.htm
http://www.reciprocallink.com/

Join discussions on Message boards

http://AssociatePrograms.com/discus/index.php
http://www.ablake.net/forum/
http://www.bmyers.com/ipub/index.html

Create your own Banner ad
http://www.adbility.com/show.asp?cat_id=337
See which ones work best
BannerTips.com
smartclicks.com/resources/best_banners.html
Get a good one made
http://www.BannerWorkz.com

Online articles
Provide articles for webmasters and ezine publishers
http://ezinearticles.com/

Talk about your site in Newsgroups
http://groups.google.com

Add interactivity to encourage repeat visitors
Add chat, message boards, surveys, guest books, games, postcards, search engines, auctions etc.

Make friends - and they will publicize your site
Good news spreads like wildfire
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/search/newsletter047.shtml

and...

Network
Work with charities
Publish your own newsletter and promote it
Give away products at other sites
Run a seminar
Create a media kit and post it on discussion boards