Submit Your Blog
Saturday, December 12th, 2009Now you can create your own blog in minutes. You can either purchase your own domain for blog, or you can make a blog for free on free blog hosting websites. The real work starts after the creation of blog; you need to submit it on search engines and blog directories.
Blog submission is just like website submission, but there are technical differences which we will discuss here. Google, Yahoo, and MSN are three major search engines on internet; this article will cover the ways about submitting your blog on these search engines.
Google crawler likes sitemap to index pages, so your blog should have sitemap.Always check your sitemap time by time to ensure that Google is not encountering any errors in it. You only need to submit your blog once on Google; you don’t need to submit again, but do not ignore your sitemap.
If your blog is hosted on Wordpress, you can install Wordpress sitemap plugin to automatically update and notify it to Google. Google offers free sitemap creation tools, so do not worry if your hosting website does not offer you any software. Sitemap is not a hindrance to submit your blog on Google Webmasters. Google gives importance to blog directories to pull results, so submit your blog on these directories first, and do not forget to ping your blog when you update it. Feed Shot is a good website to submit your blog on main blog directories.
Yahoo works differently than Google. It asks you to submit your site feed instead of sitemap. It is wise to add your blog feed on your ‘My Yahoo’ page, so that your blog can be indexed quickly to Yahoo’s version of blog search.
MSN is the third in the row after Google and Yahoo. MSN works differently; you can directly submit your blog on MSN, and for this you do not need an account. However, it is a little lengthy process as it is all manual. Another way to submit your blog on MSN is to submit it on ‘Moreover’ news site because MSN pulls a lot of results from this site.
After you successfully submit your blog on Google, Yahoo, and MSN search engines, you should ping your blog every time you update it. Ping process should only be initiated if you are sure that you have submitted your blog on all the listed directories.
These are some of the techniques to submit your blog and get more coverage in the search engines. After that, promote it by writing new posts and submit them in directories accordingly. This way you can build links and pull traffic towards your blog.