Sunday, December 21, 2008

What To Do With Your New Blogs

1. Submit URL to search engines

To make sure people find your blog from search engines, you'll need to submit your blog url to them. By doing this, you'll let them know that your blog exist and their web crawlers will "crawl" or scan your blog. Without these url submission, your blog might still be searchable by search engines but only after some period of time and will not be worthy for an updated blog contents.

Google
Yahoo
MSN Live Search

2. Enlist in Directories

Some search engines share common open directory listing such as the Dmoz. Some search engines offer their own directories where will definitely get your blogs indexed in their search engines. These tools or directories will also scan your blogs and show statistics about your blogs, pages that link the blogs, or search engine optimization analysis for your blogs. Submitting to these directories are better than just submitting your url because these directories let the search engines know every pages of your blogs.

Dmoz
Yahoo Directories
Google Webmasters Tool
Live Search Webmaster Center

3. Join Communities

These communities will help your to optimize your blogs, write better contents, manage better layouts, and most important is help bring traffic to your blogs. Millions of people join these communities and all of them rely on each other to make their blog more successful. There are many groups in each communities that you can join that might be related to your blogs.

Technorati
MyBlogLog
BlogCatalog

4. Submit to Blog Listings

This method is quite similar to submitting your blog to search engines. The difference is blog listings are focused to blogs only and blogs are categorised for easier search or browsing. Some blog listings really bring visitors to your blogs.

BloggersBox
Blogarama
Globe of Blog

5. Manage RSS Feed

Create or manage your rss feed and let readers to subscribe. Feed management is very important because not everybody can open your blog pages everyday to read your post. By using rss feed, you can notify readers about your new post through email or any feed readers.

Feedburner
FeedBlitz

6. Get Statistics of Your Blogs

View stats of your blogs so that you'll know how visitors find your blogs and where they came from. These tools will help you to optimize your blogs by showing you a lot of data including search keywords and clicks on your blogs.

Google Analytics
MyBlogLog
Blog Counter

7. Tell Friends

Utilize the social networks that you've joined to let people know about your blogs. Most of loyal readers are friends so just don't blow this advantages.

Facebook
Friendster
Myspace
Hi-5

8. Join Related Forums

Join forums related to your blog contents where you can discuss a lot of information about the future of your blogs.

Webmasters Talk
Warrior Forum

9. Submit Your Blog Articles To Social Bookmarking

Millions of users are using social bookmarking because it can relate similar articles or categories and also suggest you article you might be interested to read. These also a secure place to keep your bookmark and you can access them anywhere from different computers.

Digg
StumbleUpon
Del.ico.us
Ma.gnolia
Reddit

10. Find related blogs and link with them.

Use all the sources you can find to search for similar blogs and make friends with the authors.

3 comments:

Anonymous,  December 21, 2008 at 5:45 PM  

very good information for new blogger,I hopo we can have a good time with blogging.

Anonymous,  December 26, 2008 at 9:15 AM  

that's one of the so many keys to be a successful blogger and you're one of them....

Ridhuan December 27, 2008 at 1:45 AM  

Thanks for your comments. I had just noticed that the link for Google Analytics was initially incorrect and I had corrected the error.

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