How to Promote Your Website/Blog?

Looking for free tips of how to promote your website/blog? Over the years I’ve learned tips all over the place from Internet on how to promote a website/blog. I think it is better listing them here so whoever stumbles on My Internet Stuff site will find them useful here:

1. Write informative articles about your niche so people will link to you. This is call link-bait.
2. Submit different version of those informative articles to major article directories. If people like your article, they will post it in their sites. So you’ll get one-way link even for Free.
3. Join forums that are related to your niche. Set up your profile there so your signature link will point back to your website/blog.
4. Sign up social bookmarking sites and post your links there. Although most of them don’t provide do-follow links, still you’ll get traffic from them.
5. Find relevant websites/blogs to comment on. If allowed, leave your link there to point back to your website/blog. Most website/blog owners don’t mind that as long as what you said is natural and relevant to his/her site.
6. Sign up for Google Alert with the keywords of your niche. That is how you can  find relevant websites/blogs to comment on.
7. Become an expert of answering questions in Yahoo Answers. If necessary, you can provide helpful links back to your website/blog.
8. Participate in Google Group and Yahoo Group and have your signature link pointed back to your website/blog.
9. Make sure every website/blog of yours has 404 search friendly page. This will help your potential customers to find related articles.
10. Build an opt-in form of collecting potential customers in your niche. As some experts said, “Money is in the LIST”.
11. Provide RSS or any other social bookmarklets to allow your visitors to react with.
12. Submit your website/blog to directories of your niche. Moreover, you can even submit your RSS feed to RSS directories.
13. Sign up for Squidoo and Hubpages, write about your niche, and have links pointed back to your website/blog.
14. Use robots.txt file to control certain files if you don’t want your website/blog to end up with duplicated contents.
15. When you create your articles, make sure you have your keywords written within the title. Good headlines will attract more potential customers.
16. Create a sitemap and submit it to Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
17. Exchange your link with the relevant websites/blogs. Overall it will help you in a long run.
18. Nowadays video marketing is a very popular way of promoting your website/blog.
19. Sign up a Free account in Craigslist.org, and post your website/blog within your ads. Make sure you don’t spam.
20. Provide Google Translate for your foreign visitors so you can keep them informed. Although Google Translate is not 100% accurate, it is better than nothing.

Do you like the list above? How helpful is it to your website/blog? Please leave a comment below.