Save money on promoting your blog

If you are providing good and useful content to readers, chances are your blog will do well sooner or later. If you want it to be sooner, you need to find affordable ways to promote your blog. Of course, the best methods are the free ones. Here are some tips to help you get more exposure for free:

RssHugger

RssHugger, at rsshugger.com, offers a free way to promote your blogs. Originally a money-making venture, where the idea was to charge a small joiners fee, the site has added a model to allow listings for free. At over 3000 listed blogs, they appear to have met their goal.

Twitter

Set up a Twitter account and tweet every post your put up on your site.

Social Bookmarking

Subscribe to popular bookmarking sites like Delicious, Yahoo! and Google Bookmarks. Or, use a service like OnlyWire to submit to several social bookmarking networks at once. As of now, the best sites to use are:

•  digg
• reddit
• stumble
• delicious
• mixx
• fark
• slashdot
• friendfeed
• newsvine
• diigo
• propeller
• mister wong
• blinklist
• faves.com
• yahoo bookmarks

Blogging

Spend time on sites with similar niches and comment on their blogs. Ask if they need a guest post from you. By working together, both sites benefit.

By following these simple and free promotion techniques, you can increase traffic. If your content is good, that traffic will stick around and begin promoting your content for you as they become fans of your site.