As a blogger, what was the best way for promoting your blog?

sharing the new posts on social media with #hashtags (your personal timeline and accounts, and other pages, timelines, and accounts that reach your target audienceAsking people to share itAds on other blogs, or on social media networks There are some sites that promote your blog for free, considering its nature (art blog, political blog....) like headliner.fm (research other promoter sites)the tags you include in your posts help people to find your blogthe design of your blog, keeps people's eyes interestedhaving articles in more than one topic (social, political, entertainment....) lures more people to your blogHope my find answer useful If you need anything contact meBest, Maya 

Digital media tools come first, There are many of tools and channels you can use to promote your blog's content; Let's start with social media, Facebook and Twitter are the most important here, you can grow a good number of fans by posting daily on Facebook and by using the right hashtag on Twitter to attract larger traffic, You can also do a social media campaign -If you're willing to pay some money- which will give a push to your social reach and thickens your fan/reader base quickly and improve the numbers. You have to use analytic tools for that to track your campaign's impact on your traffic and to enhance the advertisement, it will help you be more specific and target the right people. Second is SEO, search engine optimization is the best (And free) tool that can attracts a large number of visitors, there's also guest posts and personal influence ( Connections, reputation and followers )

There are lots of blogs out there which accept guest blogging. Make your pitch and see what happens.

Create a Twitter account (and maybe a seperate FB account for your blog only) . Connect this Twitter with your blog so that your blog followers are updated with your latest posts.

You should not shy away from genuinely appreciating someone's content without spamming their blogs with your blog links. People hate spams and spammers so beware.

Follow people who are respected and admired in blogging domain. If you are genuined with your comments and they too feel the same, you will have them following you too. There is nothing wrong with this approach at all. In fact it will come as a certificate of genuine-ness if these respected bloggers recommend (or even mention your name in their posts).