Hello,

I set up a wordpress blog about my new online business but had no idea how to start. I've read a tons of ways to promote a site and just confused where to begin.

Hope anyone could lead me to the right place...thanks

You should start by reading the book, you are trying to sell, in your signature link.

Post on twitter and Facebook your blog posts titles with the link. This should drive some traffic. Make sure to sign up and confirm your account on Technorati. Submitting blog posts to social bookmarking sites is another method to drive traffic.

Post your site in social bookmarking site
post more content in your blog, it will be better if you post some new content in your blog

Start by posting quality contents to your blog. Make them as interesting as possible. Then bookmark them. If people like what they read in your blog, they'll visit it repeatedly.

Just post normally blog post and send it to many user as possible and submit it to other social site like twitter and facebook

take some reviews of ur site or business on huge traffic blogs like johnchow or others
and yea u can also get good traffic from social bookmarking sites. i personally use reddit, Digg, stumbleupon, facebook and twitter

Offer some free stuff such as ebooks or templates to promote your site? I know a lot of people are doing it nowadays.

To pramote your website with a blog you just follow the following rules for making a blog and maintainig:

Choose the Right Blog Software
Host Your Blog Directly on Your Domain
Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind
Participate at Related Forums & Blogs
Tag Your Content
Launch Without Comments
Link Intelligently
Invite Guest Bloggers

A press release is a good way to promote your site.
Join Twitter and follow people around who are in the same niche as yours.
Then talk about your niche in Twitter and post your blog on Twitter. It will help you a lot...

Ping your blog at pingomatic.com to let the search engines know your blog has been updated.

Go to www.google.com/webmasters/tools and add your url.

And you could use ppc services - adwords, msn, yahoo, miva, ask etc.

Blog Directory Submission
Social Bookmarking
Blog comment
Free Press Release
Forum Posting
Social Networking

Etc. Etc.

The best way is that every week 2 time keep on posting. Do search engine submission, social networking, blogging forum and forum posting.

From these above way you can promote your blog.

Be sure you have a GOOD content and use all the methods to advertise it then only you will be able to earn. And traffic will follow. Also, if your blog is new don't put Adsense because they might think that you just want to earn money.

post on forums, comment on other blogs.many good ways.

put your blog url everywhere you can, but don't make spam
put your blog in your IM status
post on forums and comment on blogs

First optimized your blog then you need to have good article on it and do this.

Directory Submission
Social bookmarks
Social networking
article submission
yahoo answers
blog comments
blog submission
rss submission

Add fresh content to your blog regularly for targeting your audience, and try to promote your blog by twitter, face book, like other social media and social book marking sites

@Topic creator - everyone talks about promoting your blog online .. have you ever thought of promoting blogs offline ? like giving paper ads , telling your friends and family relatives , promoting your blog using press meet ? have you ever tried ? It will be more powerful than online promotion

I'd say establish some quality content for your blog first and after you've done that start networking with others who have blogs related to yours. Get out there and start interacting on others' blogs and make a name for yourself and your blog.