I read a lot of blogs that provide great tips for promoting your blog and or web site. I have just started this site recently and I am following my 3 simple rules to promote not only my blog, but my web site. My success rate in the past with other sites has been fantastic, but it takes a little elbow grease to accomplish the task at hand.

Tip 1: Your site meta tags are important, but not as important as they were 2 years ago. You need to create the 2 most significant meta tags and your title, they’re;

<title>Who are you?</title>

<meta name=”description” content=”here is where you describe your site” />

<meta name=”keywords” content=”blog, bloggers, technology, etc” />

This will help the search engine to index your web page correctly. Yahoo and Google will crawl your web site often, but it may take up to 8 weeks before your index in their directory. You can pay the premium to be index within 24 hours, but it’s not worth it, trust me.

Once you have all your tags completed and your web page is full of content you can now start to submit your web site to many search engines and directories. I recommend one of the best free tools on the internet Web Ceo 7.0. It’s a robust web promotion tool that is free and easy to use. You can buy an upgraded version, but the free product works very nicely.

Web CEO has a lot of features like auto submit. I use this feature to resubmit my site every 6 months. You can get this product by going to www.webceo.com.

Another way to promote your site is post on other sites such as forums that are of interest to you, get your name out these and in turn they will click on your link. You can also promote your blog for free with a little work. Here are a few blog directories that can help get your blog noticed.

http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php

http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/

http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html

http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp

http://www.blogflux.com/add.php

http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php

Remember nothing comes free, you have to work at it a little each day. You can also download the Alexa ranking tool to see your sites ranking. It’s a great tool to track your progress. You can get it here http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/.

Good luck!