Is It Really Necessary To Submit Your Blog On Search Engines?
01/10/10
Anyone can very easily create his/her own blog. A blog can be created for free on blogging websites, or you can buy a domain to host it. After you create your blog, the first step should be to submit it on search engines and blog directories.
Submitting your blog is just like submitting your website, however, there are various differences which we would look here and know how to index the blog more quickly?. The three biggest search engines are Google, Yahoo and MSN; we will look the ways how to submit 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. 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. If your blog hosting website does not offer you blogging software, you can find free tools for creating sitemaps on Google. Without sitemap, you can still 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 adopts different way to submit a blog. Yahoo asks for site feed instead of sitemap to submit your blog. 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 is easiest of all; submit your blog directly. Submission of blog on MSN is a manual process in which you are required to enter the characters on the page for successful submission. 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 are done with your blog submission on Google, Yahoo, and MSN, ping it every time you update it. Before pinging your blog, you should make sure if you have also presented your blog on all of the directories listed.
These are some of the tips to submit your blog on search engines. Afterwards, you need to promote it on consistent basis by writing press releases and articles, and submit them on press release and article directories. This is the best way to pull traffic to your blog.