Now that you have gotten yourself the latest ‘in’ thing, you want to show to everyone.

You can tell your friends in the following manners:
1) Send them an email! Spam them.
2) Put your URL as your signature.

There are plenty of forums available on the internet. Find some which interests you and join. Remember to leave your URL. If your blog is concentrating on a certain topic, then, write something and tell everyone about it. Do it subtlely.

There are also many blog directories which you can send your latest postings to. This is call PING.

What is PING? Here is a technical explanation:

A utility to determine whether a specific IP address is accessible. It works by sending a packet to the specified address and waiting for a reply. PING is used primarily to troubleshoot Internet connections. There are many freeware and shareware Ping utilities available for personal computers.

It is often believed that “Ping” is an abbreviation for Packet Internet Groper, but Ping’s author has stated that the names comes from the sound that a sonar makes.

To put it simply, it is advertising your blog.

Before you go out and start advertising your blog, you must think if you need all those attention. Sometimes, people may not agree with what you write and can get very anal. Can you handle those brickbats?

I have a list of URL where you can PING your posts to. But I shall reserve them for now.

The question is - Are you ready to advertise your blog? Are you ready to accept criticisms as well as compliments? Many bloggers aren’t. Not even those who have the notion that they are veteran bloggers.