25 Ways To Promote Your Blog For Free

1. Use a lot of pictures
2. Leave comments on other blogs. Make sure they are relevant and useful.
3. Have an RSS Feed
4. Submit to blog directories
5. Add a bookmark link to every post
6. Start a 2nd blog and link to yourself
7. Join BlogCatalog and join communities
8. Join MyBlogLog and join communities
9. Use social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon
10. Create follow-up posts to give the original post some added attention. Write a second post to extend the thoughts of the first post
11. Submit your blog to web directories
12. Make sure your blog is indexed on the main search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN
13. Exchange links with blogs of similar interests
14. Create an account with Technorati and submit your blog url
15. Create a Google sitemap on your blog to help get it fully indexed
16. Link out to other blogs in your posts and have a blogroll of your favorite blogs
17. Submit articles to Ezines
18. Create a lens at Squidoo
19. Make sure your blog address is on your business cards
20. Offer an email newsletter by adding a Feedburner subscription box
21. If your blog hosting site offers a place to tag your posts - use them
22. Make sure that your content is good. Be sure to use the spellcheck feature and try to use proper grammar
23. Write your blog posts as if you are talking to a friend. Tap into your readers emotions
24. Use Twitterfeed to tweet new blog posts via a RSS feed
25. Sign up with Entrecard
    

And most important, have fun with your blog! If you are not interested in it, others won't be either.