I was explaining this to a friend of mine a few weeks ago (as well as the logic behind it) and he asked me almost in amazement “how do you know this?...” My answer was something like “erm… I don’t remember, I just know, I read it somewhere”. An answer from someone who has clearly spent too much time online.
If all your sites are indexed by Google and you know everything about everything then you won’t be reading this, if on the other hand you would like to see your domain appear in the Google search results instead of:
“Your search - www.yourdomain.com - did not match any documents”
… then read on, this technique should get you listed in Yahoo! and MSN as well.
So to get listed in the search engines you will need to do the following:
- Create a blog at blogger.com
- Write an article with a text link to the site you want listed (and post the article on your blog)
- If you don’t have them already then create an email account at Yahoo!, Hotmail and create an account at Google
- Copy the xml link in Blogger and add it to your Yahoo email, hotmail and Goggle Reader
- Ping your blog at pingomatic.com
Wait for search engine spiders (about 2 weeks or less)
A quick explanation
Search engines like fresh content to serve to their visitors, blogs are often updated frequently and do not normally have a business focus like say a .com
So rather than submit your .com domain to the search engines you can “let” the search engines find you.
When a search engine indexes a website (or a blog) it will usually follow through to the links – i.e. your site.
Google owns Blogger, it stands to reason that Google indexes the content from all the blogs at Blogger.com (Blogger has it’s own search engine – this engine wouldn’t work if the blogs hadn’t been indexed;o)
Yahoo will index the news feeds you will put in your “My Yahoo!” likewise MSN will index the link you put in your hotmail account, same with Google Reader.
When you create a new post in your blog and alert the blog indexing services using pingomatic – Yahoo!, MSN, Google will all see that a news feed has been updated and will come along to read it (in my own experience) much sooner than they would have come to look at the website if you had submitted it directly).
Click here for a step-by-step guide (with screen shots) on how to list your web site on Google.
1 comment:
Hi C Mouli!
Thanks for your post. If you want to increase traffic to your blog you should first add your xml link to Yahoo, MSN and Google reader – this won’t cost anything – simply follow the tutorial where you posted your question and ignore the reference to websites.
There is also a link at the top of my main page for a free traffic exchange – this is targeted toward Internet marketers but it might be interesting to reach them.
Did you sign up for the Ideas for Websites eBook? If you did you should have got a password in your email, please let me know if that is not working for you – I think you will find the book interesting (it won’t be free for much longer).
If you are on a budget take a look at www.bravenet.com they have a ton of resources for promoting.
Good luck to you!
All the best,
Noel
p.s. do you have a digital camera? I think lot of people would be interested in pictures of where you live to go along with the subject of your posts the story about he boy and the balloon for instance.
p.p.s. once you have read the Ideas for Websites eBook and decided on an overall theme for you blog let me know and I will generate a shortlist of keywords for you to focus on (if you wish;O).
Thanks for posting!
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