Monday, October 27, 2008

How to get your blog indexed quickly

Here are 6 essential steps to get your blog indexed. If you follow these simple steps, your blog will be indexed by google (and other search engines) within 2 days. Getting your blog on the search engines like Google & Yahoo means you get free traffic and free traffic means more sales, readers or subscribers depending on the goal of your blog or website.

1. Setup a feed for your blog. (Blogger already has a feed, but you can customize it with Feedburner)

2. Setup Google Reader and add your feed (to do this click "add subscription and type in your feed url")

3. Benefit from your Google account
Log in to the Webmaster tools section with your Google account and enter your full URL in the "Add new site" section. In the "Add new site" section, enter the full URL of your blog. It's import to verify that you are the owner of the your blog; this will allow you to access statistics and crawl errors.

4. Submit your blog to search engines:
Most blog search engines will send you an email and require you to click on a confirmation link. If submitting your blog is time consuming to you, use toSubmitExpress or SubmitPlus. Submitexpress.com will submit your blog to 40 search engines.

5. Claim your blog:
Sign up with Technorati and claim your blog. Fill out your technorati profile, readers from around the web will be able to find what you've written. Similar websites include MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, SpicyPage and FuelMyBlog.

6. Pingomatic
This is the fastest and easiest blog pinging service. Everytime you post an article, input your URL to Pingomatic, and ping all available servies. Pinging is a way of notifying blog engines that your blog has been updated. Spiders from these services will come to your blog quickly.

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