Successful ways of blog and website promotion

Many bloggers and webmasters has to work a lot for getting their site or blog get noticed by more number of people over internet. There are number of ways for promoting and building traffic to your website and blog. Some methods of promotion are free and some are paid.


Here are some common methods for promoting blog or website

• Add your blog name or website with signature of mail and in visiting card
• Update your blog name or website in social networking sites like orkut, myspace etc.
• Add your blog name or website in GTalk and Yahoo Messenger titles.
• Register in DMOZ directories.
• Submit your blog name or website in search engines.
• Register your blog name or website in blog directories.
• Do link exchange with people with similar ranks and traffic.
• Join discussion forums and add your blog name or website name as signature.
• Use Twitter.com and publish your updates.
• If your blog or website targets localized customers then put banners on back of taxi and buses. Also you can set the home page of computers internet cafes in a particular area with your website or blog (Make sure to have a good relation with Cafe owner).

There are also some tips for promotion and building traffic by Liz Strauss at successful-blog.com which will be very useful for most of the people.

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