If you are setting up your own blog, then you will want many visitors to be checking out your blog and leaving their opinions and remarks etc
. How do you get people to know about your blog? Obviously you have to promote your blog. There are many ways with which you can promote your blog and without having to incur any cost for doing so.
One innovative way would be to add your blog site link to your email signature. When you send out hundreds of mails on daily basis, automatically your blog link reaches those hundreds of recipients. And this will keep increasing day by day.
Now a days nobody writes letters or uses phone to talk for hours together. People type mails at the speed of thought and send out hundreds of mails in an hour. When business is done through emails, just imagine how many mails could be going out daily with your blog link and reaching people.
It helps to insert some catchy caption or smart one-liners with your blog link so that the visitor's attention goes to the link while they are on the mails.
You must however ensure that your blog link with the caption doesn't become too lengthy and boring. Keep it crisp and short.
The link and the phrase should invite the visitors to click on the link rather than scare them off. It should not appear like a sales talk or spamming.
You blog link should appear in such a way as to arouse their curiosity and make them want to visit your blog to see what it all about.
Your blog would attract specific category of people depending upon the topic that you are covering in your blog. Therefore the caption that you design should be aiming to catch the attention of those people who have interest in the topic of your blog.
These are but a few ways of promoting your blog. There are many more ways of promoting your blog and getting more and more traffic.