Something that has become more popular since the Internet has emerged are the email groups that are available through Yahoo, MSN, and other avenues.

They are a great way to meet other people who have a common goal, and are very similar to the communities that are available through blogging sites.

There are plenty of interesting topics and there are communities for just about any of these.

These groups can be a great place for people who have a blog about the subject and want to share it with others.

Most of the time when you join a community, you are encouraged to take a moment and to introduce yourself. This is an excellent opportunity to tell others about your blog, but make certain that you don't overdo it.

Just like with any of the other places you will advertise your blog, you want to make people want to go to your blog. If you are too overbearing, you will turn people off.

If your blog covers various subjects, you can advertise it on the other groups that cover those subjects as well.

Make certain that your post to the groups is interesting and that you let people know what it is that your blog is about. There's nothing worse than getting taken to a blog under false pretences.

When people visit your blog, make sure that you thank them for visiting and respond to comments that they leave.

If they are aware that you appreciate the time that they took, they are more likely to come back again.

Something that you will discover, especially if you join something like LiveJournal or GreatestJournal, is that people just like you have created communities for people with common interests.

There are groups for just about any subject, and if you find that there isn't a community for the subject you can create one. This is a great place to advertise your blog.

The nice thing about communities is that there isn't any limit as to how many communities that you can join.

For example, say that you love blogging about books, horseback riding, and skiing in Tahoe. All you have to do is look through the communities for ones that have those interests and join them.

As long as you post something related to the topic to the chosen community, people will see you and perhaps they will check out your personal blog.

Something to remember is that you don't want to write a post tht is one sentence long in order to get people to go to your blog. They will want to know that what you write is interesting and is something worth reading.

So, joining communities can be a great way to promote your blog and drive traffic to it. If you are referring to something that you have already posted on your blog, you can use a link back to your entry in your new post.

As with posting comments on someone else's blog, you don't want people to think that you joined a community simply to get traffic to your blog. Otherwise, people won't visit your blog and you may get banned from the community as well.