Promoting Your Blogs on Other Sites

A great way to promote your blog is to link to other sites and blogs.

For example, if you like to Do Things Yourself (DIY) there are a bunch of Crafty / DIY sites you can post your work and share it with others.  These sites also let you put a link to your blog or website up which will bring you referrals and will also bring you up in Search Engines.  (Two great DIY websites are http://www.craftbits.com  or http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com )

However, it is important that you link to other sites with a better "traffic ranking" then you do.  This is just another confusing part about Search Engine Optimization.  Depending on how many hits your blog or site gets, the internet Gods give you a ranking.  A few sites you can use to check your ranking or other people's rankings is:

http://www.alexa.com/

http://www.quantcast.com/

http://www.prchecker.info/

These sites are great because they also provide keywords that are frequently used to search your sites, and other important statistics. 

Here's a secret:  Some of these sites also provide contact information for site owners which is great if you are looking to snail mail something out to a potential customer.