You Need to Submit Your Blog
01/29/10
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. Your blog will be in with the best blogs on the internet if you can pay to submit your blogs to these paid sites.
You should also submit your blog to the traditional search engines like google, MSN, Alta Vista, etc. 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 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 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. 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. MSN requires certain things that yahoo and google do not require when you submit your blog to them. There are various articles online that can tell you how to submit your blog step by step.