Step 5: Promote Your Blog

to begin with, you can promote your web site quite effectively for free.
First, make sure that your web site mentions the phrases you would reasonably expect an interested party to search for, as regular text in your HTML, not as a picture of text.

You can add your site to Google using their Add URL page.

1. Add your URL to Google Add your URL to Google. Share your place on the net with us. We add and update new sites to our index each time we crawl the web, and we invite you to submit your URL here. www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

2. Open Directory Project: How to add a site Open Directory Project. In Other Languages. How to suggest a site to the Open Directory. The Open Directory Project is a web directory of Internet resources. A web directory is something akin to a huge reference library. ... your submission and submit the same URL more than once ... dmoz.org and then click "suggest URL." Follow the instructions ... dmoz.org/add.html

3. Scrub The Web: Add URL Add Your URL To Scrub The Web. One of the fastest growing search engines on the Net ... may submit only one URL per email address per day ... However no URL submission is guaranteed to be included in our index. Submit URL: Email Address ... www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html

4. Yahoo! - How to Suggest Your Site How to Suggest Your Site. The Yahoo! directory is organized by subject. Most sites in it are suggested to us by users. Sites are placed in categories by Yahoo! ... that you follow three simple, yet important steps if you have a site (URL) you'd like to suggest ... provide, among other information, your site's title, URL, and a brief description ... docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest

5. Add Your URL: ExactSeek.com Submit your website to ExactSeek.com, a search engine and web directory with over 100 million free and paid website listings. ... Add URL. Free Toolbar. Member Login. Link To Us ... www.exactseek.com/add.html

6. 1 2 3 Submit PRO Provides search engine placement and optimization, and Internet marketing services. websitesubmit.hypermart.net

7. Smarty Links ADD URL ADD URL. You have 3 options to add a url to our directory ... www.smartylinks.com/addurl.html

8. Add url to SEO Free web directory Free web directory, add url now ... Polish free web directory. Add url here. Submit site to Polish free web directory witch direct links. Add url for better ... directory.seo-supreme.com

9. GO.com - Official Home Page Discover how GO.com can launch your online experience with Search, fun stuff to do, and the latest Sports, News, Entertainment, and Movies from the top sources on the web. Make GO your home page today! www.infoseek.com/AddUrl?pg=DCaddurl.html

10. Excite Excite is the leading personalization Web portal, featuring world-class search, content and functionality. From financial portfolios to sports scores, local weather forecasts to movie listings, Excite gathers what matters most to you every day. ... www.excite.com/info/add_url