Archive for December, 2009

Submit Your Blog

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Now 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.

Submit your Blog

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

A new popular pastime called blogging has been catching on with a lot of people recently. Blogging is a great way to express your thoughts and feelings with the world. It is done by publishing your writing on blogging websites. You can make a lot of money by blogging too.

However, no one will know about your writing efforts unless you submit your blog to directories and search engines. It is absolutely imperative that you submit your blog or go unnoticed. The competition for traffic on the internet can run in the billions. The reality is that there is no way you can get your share of the traffic unless you submit your blog to the search engines and directories.

Successful bloggers quickly realize that they must learn about online traffic marketing too. You will need to learn about search engine rankings and all about links and back links. Your first priority should be to learn how to submit your blog.

Not knowing how to submit your blog will really put you at a disadvantage. You will also need to submit your blog to the appropriate directories and search engines. There are tons of directories out there but not all of them are appropriate for your particular blog. There are all kinds of categories. People who search the internet will be able to find you if you submit your blog to the category or topic they are looking for.

When you submit your blog to search engines it is very much like submitting your website. It is not exactly the same though. If you know what the differences are you can get your blog indexed a lot faster.

You should create a sitemap before you submit your blog. This is especially true if you want to submit your blog to google. Sitemaps are something that google really likes. You will only have to do this once but then you should keep it updated.

MSN and Yahoo are also good search engines to submit your blog to. A lot of people like to use a blog like Wordpress because it has a sitemap plugin. The good thing about a plugin is that it will update your sitemap for you whenever you site is changed. Google even has free tools that you can create your sitemap with.

You can use a site like Feed Shot to submit your blog to directories. Then just make sure you ping your blog to keep it updated on the directories. To learn more about how to submit your blog you can use the search engines for more information.