Promoting your site
There's many ways to promote your blog - by cold calling, newsletters, adding email signatures, reciprocal linking with other bloggers but one of the most effective ways to get your site added to Search Engines and Weblog Sites. I'd recommend submitting your sites to the following -
Major Submission Sites:
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?17051064
http://directory.google.com/
http://dmoz.org/
Weblog Submission Sites:
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
http://www.feedster.com/add.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
http://www.weblogs.nu/directory/submit.php?add=top
http://www.bloguniverse.com/
http://www.bloghop.com/addblog.htm
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php
http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
http://www.webworldindex.com/
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://www.blogwise.com/bycountry.php (Find your Country and Submit)
General Submission Sites:
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/
http://www.downloads.ukprofessionals.com/submission_links.html (30k submission web sites!)
http://www.spheri.ca/directories.html
http://www.addurlhere.com/links/add_link.html
http://www.illumirate.com/Illumirate/add_your_site.cfm
http://www.blueuniverse.co.uk/dir/add_url.php?c=47
http://www.geniusfind.com/submit.htm
Making money from your Blog
Sharing your views with others is great, but what if you could make a bit of money from your site? The first place I'd go to is Google Adsense. Depending on the number of visitors you get to your site and level of click-thru's that you are getting, you could end up making quite a bit of money from your site.
I've also listed other recommended money making tools also:
https://www.google.com/adsense/
http://associates.amazon.com/
http://affiliates.befree.com/Affiliates/index.jsp
http://www.textads.biz/
https://www.willhill.com/
http://www.paypal.com/
http://www.tradedoubler.com/pan/index.jsp
http://www.fastclick.com/publish.html