You Need to Submit Your Blog
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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 about being found by others then not knowing what you are doing will pose no problem. However most people are getting into blogging because they want to make money through Google adsense. If you are concerned about your blog being found by the search engines then you will need to submit your blog to the major search engines and blog directories.
If you can spare some cash you can submit your blog to paid blog directories. 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. Keep in mind that your blog will be competing with millions for the traffic. You should known which directories to submit your blog to so that it is categorized correctly. When you go to submit your blog it will be very much like it was if you have ever submitted a website. There are few differences however. If you submit your blog correctly you should get indexed rather quickly.
Before you submit your blog you should have a sitemap too. This is really important when you submit your blog to google. And we are all aware of how popular google is so the traffic from there is extremely desirable. Once indexed, you should check the sitemap regularly and keep it updated for google. If you have a Wordpress blog you can install a sitemap plugin. This way the plugin will update the sitemap automatically. 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. When you submit your blog to MSN you will need to follow their protocol which is different than yahoo and google. 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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