Most people have great ideas, and many of them become very successful, whereas others do not. Why is this the case? Its because many people don’t know how to market themselves. It’s been covered on other blogs and websites I know but now it’s time for me to go over this if you haven’t already read it.

What I’m talking about is having a business that does no advertising and can’t be seen by anyone but expects to make a huge profit because it provides something very great. Wrong! It will not work. Think about this scenario in terms of your blog or website. If you have really great content but nobody knows it’s there then what do you expect? Now that we have that out of the way lets cover in short a few different ways how to market a blog or website without spending much.

Do you use Social bookmarking sites? If not now would be a good time. This will help others know your there when an article you wrote pops up before many while they are looking at the latest added.

Do you use other social networks like mybloglog, Myspace, or Facebook to communicate with fellow bloggers and others that might be interested in your website?

Are you getting involved with commenting on other blogs to peak interest in what you might have on your site?

Are you promoting your feed to those that visit so they continue to read what you add to your blog.

Do you ping your blog so all the social sites like Technorati, Topic exchange etcc.. know that you are there?

These are just some of the basics you should be doing everyday to promote your site. You can’t spend all the time writing articles and adding content but not promoting your self otherwise you go nowhere. Your should be spending almost as much if not more ime doing these things mentioned above. Later we will be discussing how to be more efficient and effective with these and some other methods of driving traffic to your site. So stay tuned!