Hi,
Following are the 16 tips to promote your blog or website..
1. Title Tags
2. Decide between these two www and non www versions of your website and redirect it to one of them to the other
3. Create a Sitemap
4. Submit your Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
5. Put your keywords in the H1, H2 Tags
6. Include your keywords in the url of the page
7. Link to other relevant pages include keywords
8. Optimize your images
9. Join Identi.ca. its like other social bookmarking sites but its do follow.
10.Find some authoritative sites
11. Udr the ping list with WordPress.
12. Bookmark your site
13. Burn your feed, using feedburner.
14. Submit your rss feed to rss directories.
15. Find some large forums in your niche and participate in them. Include signature links//
16. Comment on niche blogs ,mostly on dofollow blogs..