If you’re looking for a quick boost in visitors and something to post about, you may be able to accomplish both by participating in a Meme.

A meme is basically a central topic to post about on a certain day. Or some do it every day. Some give you the topics to post about, while others will simply allow you to pick the topic and run with it. Usually there will be multiple questions, a steady number, which you will need to answer on your blog.

The first I’ve seen of this was many years ago with the Friday Five, and all the bloggers were using Greymatter or B2 (remember those?). Its popularity was astounding. It’s no surprise people jumped on the bandwagon and made their own sites just like it. If you want to get started on your first meme tomorrow, try the new Friday Five.

A very popular meme is the Thursday Thirteen. From their website you can find a link to others who have done the meme and comment on them. Usually they’ll return the favor and comment back on yours. Participating in this meme gives you a long, interesting article and will probably generate anywhere from 25-300 new visitors.

My favorite meme has to be the Photo Friday. It adds an extra level where you take a phone to try and show an artistic interpretation of a word. Last week’s word was purple and some of the things people came up with were amazing, like this beautiful photo.

If you’re interested in memes, but these aren’t for you, check The Daily Meme. He offers a much better explanation (and another way to pronounce it) along with a list of 105 meme-esque sites.

Some blogs have gone as far as to buy advertising on other blogs or sponsor review posts. You’re doing this to get more people from other sites to come to your site. Have you considered getting more people to go to the sites you advertise on will be beneficial to you as well?

Comment - Comment on the blog you’re advertising with. The more activity a blog has, the more interest it can maintain. And if you have a sponsored post, comment there as well. Usually blogs will reward their commenters with a link back, which also brings an honorable mention to the post they commented on.

Stumble/Digg - If you have Stumble, Digg, Sk*rt, or any of the other sites like these, make sure you vote for the site and the post. With Stumble you can vote for the site itself, the post, and your comment. Ask all your friends to do this as well.

Search Them - Check them out in the search engines and help them rank higher. If you’ve found some free places to promote your own site, promote your advertising site there as well.

Make A Freebie Blog - With a freebie blog you can help raise your own site and the sites you bought advertising on even just a little bit. Here you can decide what anchor words to use and how to use them. Writing a post a day is an easy way to get traffic to your sites and to help them out in the rankings.

The truth of the matter is, the more your advertising site is seen, the more your ad or post is seen. This can be helpful in getting your topic out in areas it may not have seen before.

If you were to advertise on a pet lover’s site, you could begin promoting them as a pet site. If you’re a domain registrar, you can get out there in any topic. People will go to this site and want to make one of their own, so the pet lover will post about your company and give others the idea to get their own domain to make a similar site.

It’s all common sense, really, but sometimes with so much going on the simple things slip our minds. Let me know if you’ve tried this. Maybe exchange links with a friend and promote their site to expand your own visitor base.

Listing your site in a directory is a good way to help raise your page rank, alexa, and visitor base. Directories usually break their listings into categories which helps the person looking for a site to find exactly what they’re looking for. Sometimes these directories will be free to list your site, with a link back, and sometimes they will require payment.

Alive Directory, one of the most popular directories, has a section created just for blogs. Their blog directory lists many different kinds of blogs, from business to politics. You can be assured that no matter what your blog topic, they have a category for you. And if they don’t, they’ll add it. They don’t have a large list of blogs yet, which gives you the upper hand. You’ll have less trouble getting noticed when there aren’t other sites around to clutter it up.

You can see this directory is going to be great, they have a wonderful design. They’ve chosen to use the same design as the main site, but substitute the blue for green. Conformity is a great idea when branching off your site, but at the same time you want something to set it apart. They did a wonderful job with this.

Regular listings with Alive start at $29.95 per year, with a link back. Someone feel up to buying me one? And the featured links, which will be shown above all the ‘regulars’ start at $59.95 per year. Alive has put out a lot of effort to make sure their directory is wildly promoted, therefore raising the promotion of your site. It’s a really great idea, one of those where I think “Why didn’t I think of that?”

I’ve put my hosting company, E-Starr, into the Sponsored Reviews pool to generate a little buzz. My review isn’t worth much, but I’m hoping to get some word of mouth going. Doing this has given me an advertiser’s view of the system and I thought I would tell you a bit about it.

Just minutes after I set up my campaign I had a good 20 offers. Another half hour later, 20 more. It’s nice to see people are interested in helping me get my company out there. But if you look at my list of offers you’ll see that 95% of them list nothing more than their site names. Sponsored Reviews lists the rank and category next to it, and that’s about all there is to go on. But I need more info.

When you post your site name in Sponsored Reviews it will benefit you (and help the advertiser) if you tell a little about your site. They’ll want to know about your Page Rank, your Alexa, your Technorati, and your site’s participation level. Offer as much positive information as you can into your title, because no one’s looking at your description. When you have 300 offers to get through, the description is the last thing anyone’s going to look at.

So if you were an advertiser and I offered to review your site, you would see “The Blog World (PR4, -150k Alexa)” as the title of my site. This gives the advertiser the information they want upfront and gets the site seen faster than simply listing a title. Try it out, let me know if it helps you out any.