You Need to Submit Your Blog
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by: albertzan
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The idea of blogging today is very popular. A lot of people are charging into it with no idea of what they should really be doing. If you do not really care if other people find your blog then you have nothing to worry about. However most people are getting into blogging because they want to make money through Google adsense. If this is you, then you will need to submit your blog to search engines and blog directories.
You can submit your blog to paid blog directories if you can afford it. The search engines trust paid blog directories. This is because there are certain standards your blog will have to live up to before they are accepted to paid sites. If you submit your blog to a paid blog directory you will be in there with the best blogs on the internet.
Submit your blog to the popular search engines like google, Yahoo and MSN as well. The reason you want to submit your blog to the search engines is so that it can be found. There are millions of blogs on the internet so you will be competing for traffic. You should known which directories to submit your blog to so that it is categorized correctly. When you submit your blog to the blog directory it is very similar to submitting a website. There are few differences however. When you submit your blog the righ way it will get indexed quicker.
You should make sure you have a sitemap done before you submit your blog. This is especially important when you submit your blog to google. And we all know who important google is when it comes to getting traffic. After you submit your blog to google you should check the sitemap once in a while and keep it up to date. You can install a sitemap plugin if you have a Wordpress blog. The plugin will automatically update your sitemap and notify google for you. You can use google tools to make your own sitemap if you are not using a wordpress blog template.
When you want to submit your blog to the major blog directories you can use a site like Feed Shot to do it. You will need an account to submit your blog to google and yahoo. MSN requires certain things that yahoo and google do not require when you submit your blog to them. You can find articles online that will show you step by step how to submit your blog to the blog directories and individual search engines.
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