BLOGGING AVENUES

You have finally created a blog for yourself. Now how to go about promoting it? There are various ways of promoting your blog. You can do that by submitting your blog in various search engines and community sites. You can also use other forms of publicising tools like bookmarking tools that can be directly integrated to your blog page. These bookmarking tools allow users to easily refer back to your blog for new informations and updates in your blog. You can also verbally spread news about your blog to your friends and ask them to check and give comments on how they feel about your blog. This way your blog will start attracting more and more readers. Whichever way you take your primary concern is to take your blog across wide spectrum of audiences. Below is some recommended blogger community sites where you can become a member and submit your blog and can use them as platforms to promote and publicize your blog.

1. Del.icio.us
This is a social bookmarking site. It gives users the option of tagging your blogs under specific categories. If your blog falls under 'technology' then your blog reader can bookmark it under the technology category of the site. Currently the most popular tool used by many bloggers.

2: Digg
This is also a popular tool that you can integrate in your blog. With this tool, you can allow readers to submit the articles of your blog directly into the digg community site. It gives the option of digging your article or in other words voting your articles. This way your articles can be popularised and thereby streaming more and more traffic to your blog.

3. Reddit
This also allows user to submit articles from the blog directly to the Reddit site using an integrated submission tool in your blog.

4. Stumble Upon
Here you can submit your blog for others to discover. Stumble Upon has a huge collection of blogs and members of the community can discover each others' blogs very easily through the community platform.
5. Technorati
This is a big blogger community. Thousands of bloggers interact with each other and get opportunity of sharing and discussing each others views and opinions related to their blogs.

6. BlogEngage
BlogEngage is a growing communtiy with thousands of registered members. You can even make friends with other bloggers through this platform.

7. Facebook
Facebook is one of the most popular social community sites with millions of active users. Through this community you can connect almost with anyone around the world. Right from your family members, relatives to unknown sea of people, you can find all sorts of people of different race and creed here wanting to get in touch and make friends with each other.

These are the few ways and options by which you can effectively promote your blog site. Promoting and publicizing blogs not only bring laurels, name and fame but also the much needed traffic which helps immensely in your monetization programs.

Good luck and all the best in your endeavours.