Techniques to promote your blog for making money online

Place your web site links on your blog and vice versa
Place your web site URL and blog URL on your business cards, stationery, letterhead, and corporate memos
Place your site URL and blog URL in your e-mail signature
Include your web site URL and blog URL in all print advertising (newsletters, flyers, ads, articles, etc.).
Distribute press releases for news, information, or product releases and include your web site URL and blog URL
Write articles and submit them to professional e-zines, article directories, and others to publish. Be sure to9 include a release allowing your articles to be reprinted or redistributed, but only with proper attribution to you (at minimum include your name, company, website URL and blog URL)
Even though you have ping turned on for your blogs, use a free pinging service to hit all the major search engines. It is quick and very simple. I recommend http://pingomatic.com, http://feedshark.brainbliss.com, and http://technorati.com/ping
Submit your blog and RSS feed to directory services. A good list is available online at http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/

Implement an AdSense program in your website and blogs. For more details on AdSense, Visit http://www.google.com/adsense
If you are using Blogger, ensure you allow your blog to be added to the Blogger listing. Details about this are at http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41373
Actively comment on others blogs; they will actively comment on yours.
Sign up for a free Feedburner account (http://www.feedburner.com) and use it to promote your blog.
Offer to exchange links with other Websites and blogs.
Start contest that require people to visit your blog. Sure you are forcing their hand, but people like to win stuff, or even try to win stuff so take advantage of the free traffic.
Use meta description and keywords in your blog pages.
Tag your content with http://digg.com/ , http://del.icio.us/, and others.
Join online discussion groups and forums, establish yourself as an expert in your market, and always leave your blog URL with your forum posts.
Interact with other bloggers at http://www.mybloglog.com/. This gives you great stats and indexes your blog within their community listing.