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Wordpress blogs promote themselves very easily. Once you have added your list of services into the “Ping List” and setup the Google Sitemaps plugin, each time you post you will automatically informing these services to come and visit your blog to index your new content.

But what else can you do?

Well, quite a lot actually! Web 2.0 is a phrase which you may have heard of. It is basically a collective term for the newest forms of Web Services, such as social networking, social bookmarking etc. Informing these sites of your latest posts to your blog is a great way to get almost instant traffic.

A quick way to do this is to create a free account at Onlywire.com. Onlywire has a list of the most popular social bookmarking sites. You simply sign up to all these services and they all get saved into your Onlywire account. Then each time you want to submit a new bookmark, just use the one form at Onlywire and it will automatically bookmark ALL the other services for you. This is a huge timesaver and a great way to get spiders quickly to your blog.

Things To Do After Each Post

The first thing to do after you have posted to your blog, is submit the page to Onlywire as above. Next you should use the following services:

Digg.com

Digg allows you to submit a new story. This is ideal to use for each blog post you make, just create a short summary of your new post and submit it to them.

Reddit.com

Reddit is similar to Digg, in that you sign up for free and then submit useful links to your account. If you are lucky enough, your post can make the front page of Reddit and should see a few hundred visitors in a day or so.

Stumble Upon

Stumble is another very popular bookmarking service. To use it you will have to install their toolbar. This is done very easily and is free from any spyware or popups. After each new post to your blog, just click the button on the toolbar and submit the page. This can bring in a steady trickle of traffic.

Pingoat.com

Pingoat will submit your new posts to all the popular RSS feed services. This in addition with your own ping list, should see a lot of spider activity on your blog in a very short space of time.

Just doing these 5 things after each blog post, will see your blog spidered very quickly by all of the major search engines and will almost certainly see instant traffic also.

There are of course an unlimited amount of extra ways to get free traffic but they go far beyond the scope of this guide. If you find something that works, stick to it and don’t get distracted by other methods which may not be as effective.