Blogs and blogging are getting popular day by day. There are millions of bloggers which are working in this field. The thing which could make your blog distinct and popular is its content and promotion routine. Now there are different techniques which are used for the blog promotion. These techniques are such simple even any blogger can understand and implement for his blog promotion.

Efficient Blog promotion

Exchange links with other bloggers. Try to exchange links with those blogs which have good rank. Use BlogRush because it is simple and efficient for blog promotion. It is necessary to submit each new post to RSS directories like feed burner or flicker. Submit your blog to blog directories. Submit it to general directories. Start a 2nd blog and link to yourself because it would be beneficial to have new blog with new idea it would offer variety to the visitor. If it is possible then create and give away blog themes (with a link to your blog in the footer). Participate in blog carnivals. Comment on Do Follow blogs.

COMMUNITY:

Online communities are those online portals on which you can share information with others. Join a community and develop a relationship with others so that they consider every piece of information shared by you. Blog promotion by using communities is very efficient method which can direct handsome traffic to your site immediately. Here are some blog related websites where you can join communities for blog promotion. MyBlogLog, Bumpzee, Blog Catalog. Just start a community on these websites and comment on other blogs. Email your friends and contacts about a new blog post that may interest them. Email your readers to say “thank you”. Email other bloggers to introduce yourself. Link out to other blogs

SOCIAL MEDIA:

You can use social book marking services for blog promotion. Some of them which have good rank are given below:

Digg, delicious, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Netscape, Magnolia, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube etc.

Regularly add information about latest posts on these websites regularly. It will direct handsome traffic to your blog and would be beneficial in order to get good rank.

FORUMS:

Online forums can also be used for the blog promotion because there are so many visitors of a forum on daily basis. If your submission is attractive then those visitors will be directed to your blog. Some of efficient forums are given here. AuthorityBlogger and answers.yahoo.com. Yahoo answers is a very powerful forum which has capability to direct tons of traffic to your blog because it posts are considered by all search engines.