Now you can create your own blog in minutes. 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.
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.
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.
For instance, if you host your blog on Wordpress, it is good to install Wordpress sitemap plugin which is a good tool that automatically updates your sitemap and send notification 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. Yahoo asks for site feed instead of sitemap to submit your blog. To index your blog quickly on Yahoo search engine, you need to add your blog feed on your ‘My Yahoo’ page.
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. 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.