How to Submit Your Blog to the Top Search Engines

Although submitting your blog to the search engines is very similar to submitting your website, there are several differences that you should be aware of. Knowing these differences can help you get your blog indexed more quickly because you have submitted your blog correctly.

Regardless of whether you are submitting a blog or a website, if you are submitting to Google, you should create a sitemap. Although you should check your sitemap periodically to make sure Google isn't encountering any errors with your sitemap, once you submit it, you don't have to submit to Google again. All you have to do is keep your sitemap up to date.

If you use a blog like Wordpress, you can install the sitemap plugin. This plugin updates your sitemap automatically and notifies Google that your site has changed.

If you don't use a blogging software that generates sitemaps, you can create your own. Google offers plenty of free tools for creating sitemaps.

Even if you use a blogging service that doesn't offer sitemaps, you can still submit your site through Google sitemaps. You won't get detailed statistics.

You can submit to Google here: Google Webmaster Tools.

Since Google doesn't allow direct submission to its blog search, you will need to make sure that you submit your site to blog directories that Google draws results from for its blog search, and then make sure that ping these sites.

You can use sites like Feed Shot to submit your site to some of the major blog directories.

When submitting to Yahoo, you need to submit your site feed instead of a sitemap. You can submit your blog to Yahoo here: Yahoo Submit Request. Instead of submitting your site, you will use the first block and submit your feed.

You will need an account to submit to both Yahoo and Google. It's free.

MSN, the third of the big three search engines is completely different in the way that you need to submit to get your blog included.

You can submit directly to MSN to be included. You don't need an account, but you will need to submit manually because you will need to enter the characters on the page to make sure your submission request goes through.

You can submit here: MSN

There is an easier way to make sure that your blog is included in MSN. You can submit to Moreover. If your site is included in Moreover, it should be included in MSN as MSN draws a lot of results from this news site.

Once you've submitted your blog to the top three search engines, forget about it. Your next step should be to ping your blog each time that you post to it.
 

There are three services you can use. Which one you choose is a matter of preference and which one you like using the best.

Before you ping your blog for the first time though, make sure that you glance through the list of blog directories. You want to make sure you have submitted your blog to each of the directories listed. Also, some of the services listed at these ping services may not relate to your blog. Make sure you uncheck these before you ping.

Ping Services
Pingomatic

Ping The Empire

Pingoat

Ping your blog regularly.

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