How To Submit Your Blog On Yahoo?
01/03/10
Now you can create your own blog in minutes. 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. You only need to submit your blog once on Google; you don't need to submit again, but do not ignore your sitemap.
For instance, if you host your blog on Wordpress, it is good to install Wordpress sitemap plugin which is a good tool that automatically updates your sitemap and send notification to Google. Google offers free sitemap creation tools, so do not worry if your hosting website does not offer you any software. Sitemap is not a hindrance to submit your blog on Google Webmasters. Google drags results from blog directories, so it is good to submit your blog on these blog directories, and ping your site when you revise your blog. There are many websites which offer you this service, but Feed Shot is the most powerful website which submits 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. It is wise to add your blog feed on your 'My Yahoo' page, so that your blog can be indexed quickly to Yahoo's version of blog search.
MSN is the third in the row after Google and Yahoo. MSN is easiest of all; submit your blog directly. Submission of blog on MSN is a manual process in which you are required to enter the characters on the page for successful submission. Another way to submit your blog on MSN is to submit it on 'Moreover' news site because MSN pulls a lot of results from this site.
After you successfully submit your blog on Google, Yahoo, and MSN search engines, you should ping your blog every time you update it. Ping process should only be initiated if you are sure that you have submitted your blog on all the listed directories.
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 way you can build links and pull traffic towards your blog.