Five (5) Best, Powerful FREE Ways To Promote Your Blog/Website   by Philip Maki

in Website Promotion    (submitted 2009-02-27)

Imagine you have Blog. You want to make money with it. You have followed the expert advise to write at least 5 'pillars' articles. You have use a proper domain name and had written at least one article a day to keep your Blog alive and fresh. But wait, they have not telling you one very important thing, how to get people to visit and read the content of your Blog. If you want that information, you have to pay for it. Sounds familiar?

Here I will reveal some of their so called secrets. I will show you where is the best five places to promote your Blog free besides submitting articles to Ezinearticles and create a Squidoo page.

1. Build a hub at Hubpages.

This is a pagerank 6 site with more than 4.7 million visitors. This is almost similar to Squidoo. You can sign up for free and can create your own pages. Inside your page you can place a direct links to your blog to drive traffic. Not only that, You can also promote on your products, affiliate products or even your Internet home based business website. You can also earn money from it by joining the affiliate program. What a great free way and place to start an online business.

2. Submit 'New Stories' at Propeller.

If you are good enough at 'making or creating headlines', try submitting some hot stories you have written in your blog and to Propeller. This is a pagerank 8 site with more than 1.2 million visitors. If your headline and story is juicy enough, people will read and vote it. Readers/visitors will click the link to your Blog to read more about it.

3. Ever heard of Yahoo Answers?

This is another great way to get the people attention. Yahoo Answers is a global community of shared user knowledge. Anyone can ask a question, and anyone can answer as well - from serious questions such as how to reduce child mortality around the world to inane topics such as how to get a booty. Best of all, the site is free! If you are knowledgeable and good at answering questions, this is the best place to expose or indirectly promote your blog and business. Not only that this place can get traffic to your website, you can also build your reputation and also understand customers and target market. This is also a good place for social networking.

4. Video Sites

If you are good at making videos, this is a good place to promote your blog or online business. Submitting your videos to video sites is a fantastic way to get traffic to your blog (make sure you put a link to it there) and also some strong backlinks. Youtube is not the only one video site out there. There are others as well like Dailymotion, Yahoo, Google and BlipTV

5. Simple but Powerful Craiglist.

Craiglist.org really looks very simple. The first time I found it, its look like a website where nobody will like to read or visit. But guess what it's a pagerank 7 site with more than 46.8 million visitors! Craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events. The best part is it is FREE to post your advertisement. Your posting will stay there for 30 days if nobody flag it as spam.

There you go the five best, powerful way to promote your blog or online business. I hope it will help you in your blogging for money adventure.

For more blogging secrets follow me on my quest to gain some reputable rank for one of my blog. No hidden technique. Everything I do to achieve the objective is all written there.

About the Author

Philip Maki is an architect, businessman and an aspiring internet marketer.