You can file this tip under the obvious department, but to be honest, I don’t know how many people are actually doing it.

Cross promote your site!

What I mean by this is when you see another site or blog that you like, send an email to the person that runs the site and let them know you like their work and you’d like to link to their webpage.

You should also let them know that they should check out your site and if they like what they see, they should feel free to go ahead and include a backlink to your site on their webpage.

Here’s where my advice will differ from most people’s; don’t just try to promote your site on similar sites, but branch out to other sites that are seemingly unrelated.

I’ll explain. If you were to ask me what my interests are, I would tell you in no particular order sports, business, music and movies. I would imagine that I’m not the only person in the world with multiple interests.

Should you concentrate your cross promotion with similar sites? Yeah, that would probably be a good idea. But at the same time, don’t limit yourself. If you read a movie blog that you really like, but you have a business blog, go ahead and try to cross promote anyway.

As long as you have good content, it doesn’t matter how somebody finds your site!