Is It Really Necessary To Submit Your Blog On Search Engines?
02/25/10
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. The three biggest search engines are Google, Yahoo and MSN; we will look the ways how to submit your blog on these search engines.
Before submitting your blog on Google, you must ensure that your blog has a sitemap.It is advisable to go through your sitemap every now and then to see if it has any error. Once you submit your blog on Google, you don't have to do it again, however, you should keep close eye on 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 drags results from blog directories, so it is good to submit your blog on these blog directories, and ping your site when you revise your blog. There are many websites which offer you this service, but Feed Shot is the most powerful website which submits your blog on main blog directories.
Yahoo adopts different way to submit a blog. 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.
Now let's talk about MSN which is the third biggest search engine 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. One another easy way to submit on MSN is to submit your blog on 'Moreover' news site, because many results which MSN shows are dragged from 'Moreover'.
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 is the best way to pull traffic to your blog.
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