Blog promotion is the most important thing which need lots of time. Without promotion no one can get the positive result. There for you should never stop promoting your blog. In blogging the word “Promotion” means “Backlinks”. The more your blog is promoted the more it provides you links. Search engines love links, and they only rank high those blogs which are more popular. So get links from other blogs, websites, forums and social bookmarking. So that you can promote your blog and get positive result. You can use the following 20 ways to get more backlinks for your blog and increase traffic to your blog.

Ways to Promote your Blog

1. Article Submission
2. Write Articles on WikiPedia
3. Make a Wiki for your Blog
4. Make squidoo lens for your Blog
5. Create MySpace Page
6. Register with MyBlogLog
7. Create FaceBook Page
8. Social Bookmarking
9. Directory Submission
10. Forum Posting
11. Blog Commenting
12. Hubpages
13. Submit your Blog Posts to voting communities for Votes
14. Submit a small article about your blog in Press Release
15. Always use Ping Services like pingomatic and RSS aggregators
16. Advertise your blog on free advertising provider forums and blogs
17. Write Guest Posts in other blogs
18. Start 2nd and 3rd Blog and write about your 1st Blog
19. Provide free giveaways offers, license keys and free ebooks on monthly basis
20. Be Patient and wait for the Result

These are the most popular and useful ways to promote your blog. Start from the 1st one and complete all the steps one by one. After the completion just wait for some time and see the positive result. Waiting is compulsory, you have to wait  for the positive result because every thing need some time to show you good result. Blogging is all about long term plans, every article will give you benefit after some time. So be patient and keep promoting your blog through all the above and other available ways.  But only promote through SEO Friendly techniques.