Creating a Blog | A Step-by-step Guide (Part 4)

Post your blog to search engines in order to get indexed in the search engine directories:

The following steps will show you how to post your blog to the Internet through search engines. This will create a free traffic of readers to your blog. Once you get indexed by the search engines, your blog will continue to move up in the page rankings as long as you continue to keep adding posts and content to your blog a couple times a week. And the more traffic you receive, the more money you will make. Search engines rank web pages based on several factors, including having regular fresh content, links to the page from other sites, and the number of hits the site receives from visitors. Follow each step carefully.

1. To submit to smaller search engines go to this page: http://www.hostned.com/resources_site_submit.htm
2. Enter your "website URL", which looks something like http://blogname.blogspot.com, and enter your email address.
3. Untick Google, but leave everything else ticked and then click the button "Submit your Site."
4. Wait while your site is evaluated and posted to the search engines.
5. When the screen completes loading, go to your email and confirm your submission. You can ignore any requests for upgrades.
   
   
6. To submit to Google the best way is to go to the Google Webmaster tool by clicking this link.
7. Log in on the right-hand side using your Blogger.com account details.
8. Next enter your blog's URL address in the box that says "Click here to add a site", and then click "Add Site".
9. Where you see "Next Step", click on the link "Verify your site."
10. From the drop-down menu "Choose verification method", select "Add a meta tag".
11. Leaving this page open, go to your blogger.com account (the dashboard) and click on "layout".
12. Click on "Edit HTML".
13. Now copy the google verification meta tag from the other page, and paste it directly below your previously-entered meta tags (i.e., above <b:skin><![CDATA[/* ).
14. Click "Save Template".
15. Finally, go back to the google verifying page and hit the "Verify" button.
    
    
16. Submit your blog to Google's "Beta Blog Search" by following this link here.
17. Simply add your blog's URL address (eg. http://blogname.blogspot.com) and click "Submit blog"!
    
    
18. To submit to Yahoo, you will first need a Yahoo account if you don't already have one. You can get a free account HERE.
19. Next go to this page to submit to Yahoo's search engine.
20. After logging in, enter your blog's URL under the heading "Submit a Website or Webpage" and hit the button "Submit URL". And you're done with Yahoo. :)
    
    
21. And lastly, submit to MSN Live! Search by going to this page.
22. Type in the security characters in the box shown.
23. Enter your blog's URL in the box below the words "Type the URL of your homepage" and hit the "Submit URL" button.

You have now submitted your blog to several search engines. Your blog will get picked up by several hundred smaller search engines that feed off these major search engines, which in return will get you more exposure - which means more traffic to your blog. Don't forget to add content every few days.

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