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Saturday, July 11, 2009

How can search engine find your Blog?

How to get indexed by search engines?

If you want your blog to be found on search engines you need to get your blog indexed by search engines because even blogs are made to be read by people they must find a way of finding your blog, so I will tell you some tips how to be indexed in different search engines…

How to be indexed by Google:

You can go to http://www.google.com/addurl/ then fill in the form there. Depending upon the content in your site Google will index your site.


How to be indexed by Yahoo:

Go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit/ (you need to sign up and have a yahoo ID to continue). Choose ‘Submit a Website or Webpage' and enter your website address (homepage) and click submit URL button.


How to be indexed by MSN:

Go to: http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx. Fill in the form and submit the form.



Other ways to be indexed by search engines:

Your blog can still be in search engines if you can join a popular and high page ranked forum site and go to your profile to create a signature. In your signature, include your URL and a description of your site. Try to use your best keywords in the URL. Keywords in the URL are important to the search engines than just standard text in the description. Then just post and post. This is also helpful in link building, because each one of your posts will count as a link in the search engines. Now you can quickly and easily be indexed by all major search engines.


How to check if your site has been indexed by search engines:

You can check if your blog is now indexed in search engine by just going in the homepage of a search engine and just typing site:your_site_address.com in the search box.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Ways to increase traffic on your blog

Every Blogger wants more traffic in their sites because the more traffic the more money you earn. I am not an expert in traffic but I have studied on how to increase traffic so I want to tell you the ways in getting more traffic in your blog.

1. Quality content
– to make readers come back in your blog you should have a good topic and content. Writing a good content on your blog can really attract visitors. Write post that people will want to read. Creating a controversy can also attract visitors.

2. Attractive blog title
– titles are very important in search engines. Choose the title that most people are searching for.

3. Always update your blog
– readers will never come back in your site if you will not have fresh contents in your blog. Readers and search engines loves new post.

4. Get links
– getting links on your blog can greatly increase the traffic that you get. You should exchange links from other bloggers. It’s better if you get linked by high trafficked sites.

5. Use keywords
– having good keywords in your blog and using it effectively can increase the traffic of your blog because these keywords are the words that readers are searching for. Before creating a blog you should use a certain keyword in your blog.

6. Join conversations
– when you comment on other blog it’s likely that they might also comment on your blog especially when you leave your blog address and that can help increase your traffic.

7. Join Top Blog Sites
– joining blog site can help the promotion of your blog because these networks make your blog be easily found by search engines.

8. Sign up for Traffic Swarm
Trafficswarm.com can greatly increase your traffic especially when you get enough credits because they will display your blog in their home page that can be clicked and be visited by readers.

9. Get pinged in technorati
Technorati is one of the most famous blog sites in the net because peoples can easily find your blog when your blog is searched by tags. You should use technorati tags by tagging all of the keywords in your blog.

10. Sign up for FeedBurner
– Feedburner is an RSS service that can help you promote the content of your blog and increase the traffic of your blog.

11. Use the Network effectively
– the more people you know the more visitors and traffic you will have.

12. Use ping services
– use ping-o-matic or pingoat when you are updating your blog or when you are writing a new posts because this will help you tell other bloggers or readers that you updated your blog.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Earn Money from your blog

Do love blogging and you want to earn money from your passion? Blogs today are very popular source of income. It’s easy to make money from blogs especially when you get enough traffic every day.

I will tell you some ways to earn money from your blog.

1. Advertising
- Putting ads for products and merchandises to advertise on your site is the most popular way to earn money online. The way to make money through advertising is to drive traffic to your blog and hopefully some of your visitors click on these ads. Putting text links can also give you additional money because as your reader is reading your blog they might click on this text link where you can take them to other products you advertise.

2. Affiliate marketing
- You can also join Affiliate programs that relate to the niche of your blog and earn every time someone purchase the product you sell. Affiliate program provides your blog readers to click on related Advertiser products directly instead of searching them on search engines.

3. Sponsorship
- Having your own sponsor can really help in increasing your income.

4. Sell Merchandise
- You can sell any branded and even non-branded merchandise like t-shirt, mugs, stickers etc. It can also help you advertise your blog if you put your blogs address on it.

5. Sell Links in Your Blog
- If your blog has a very high traffic many website may want to have their links on your site, they might pay you monthly.

6. Ask For Donations
- If you have loyal readers, it would be good to have a donation box in your blog because they might just give you some money because they appreciate your blog.

7. Posting Service
- If other bloggers really want to post on your blog to promote their site you could ask them for a fee.

8. Review Other Website
- You can offer to review other website and earn money from it.

9. Sell an EBook
- writing an EBook and selling it to your readers can help you get additional income

10. Write a Book
- You could write a book about your blog you could advertise it to your readers.