Anyone can very easily create his/her own blog. You can either purchase your own domain for blog, or you can make a blog for free on free blog hosting websites. The real work starts after the creation of blog; you need to submit it on search engines and blog directories.
Blog submission is just like website submission, but there are technical differences which we will discuss here. The three biggest search engines are Google, Yahoo and MSN; we will look the ways how to submit your blog on these search engines.
Google crawler likes sitemap to index pages, so your blog should have sitemap.It is advisable to go through your sitemap every now and then to see if it has any error. Once you submit your blog on Google, you dont have to do it again, however, you should keep close eye on your sitemap.
If your blog is hosted on Wordpress, you can install Wordpress sitemap plugin to automatically update and notify it to Google. If your blog hosting website does not offer you blogging software, you can find free tools for creating sitemaps on Google. Without sitemap, you can still submit your blog on Google Webmasters. Google gives importance to blog directories to pull results, so submit your blog on these directories first, and do not forget to ping your blog when you update it. Feed Shot is a good website to submit your blog on main blog directories.
Yahoo adopts different way to submit a blog. It asks you to submit your site feed instead of sitemap. To index your blog quickly on Yahoo search engine, you need to add your blog feed on your My Yahoo page.
MSN is the third in the row after Google and Yahoo. MSN is easiest of all; submit your blog directly. However, it is a little lengthy process as it is all manual. One another easy way to submit on MSN is to submit your blog on Moreover news site, because many results which MSN shows are dragged from Moreover.
After you are done with your blog submission on Google, Yahoo, and MSN, ping it every time you update it. Before pinging your blog, you should make sure if you have also presented your blog on all of the directories listed.
These are some of the tips to submit your blog on search engines. Afterwards, you need to promote it on consistent basis by writing press releases and articles, and submit them on press release and article directories. This is the best way to pull traffic to your blog.

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