Tweaking My Blogs

A few days ago I uncovered a bit of a blogging problem with this blog, my newest blog. Now this blog has only been in existence since late November. So of course I've used what I've learned from my other blogs to get this one off to a start focusing on building content first. I knew it would take a bit of time to get noticed by Google but it would have made it a bit easier had I remembered to submit my url to them. What I came across that was interesting was submitting to Yahoo's search engine. Did you know if you submit your RSS feed to your My Yahoo it will get your blog indexed in their search engine sooner? Another thing I found out is from time to time you should search for your blog to see if it appears in the search engine you are testing. I spent a bit of time doing a bit of tweaking and checking. Overall I expect this will improve the traffic to my blogs. That's what blog maintenance is all about, discovering or recognizing a problem then correcting it in the hope of improving performance.

Garden Gnome
©2009-2010

Why Isn't My Blog Showing in Search Engines

When I first started blogging I really had no idea how to go about getting search engines to notice me and in some ways I really wasn't concerned about it. You see with any type of business or hobby or new activity there is a natural growing period. The average time it takes to build a new business to get to the point you start making money is 3 years. The learning curve for some hobbies can be a lifetime. Heavens there is no way I will ever know everything about Photoshop! Learning to design your blog and do the actual blogging really takes little more than a couple of weeks if that. Where the real growing period comes into play which I quickly learned is getting the attention of the search engines and in particular Google.

The big problem is even after you've done everything correctly your blog may still not be indexed by the search engines. In this case and something I only learned after authoring 3 blogs is getting the attention of search engines is 3 fold. These are:

1. regular content with good keywords
2. ping after each addition of new content to your blog
3. submit your blog to the search engines

Get your blog noticed by Google quicker by going to http://blogsearch.google.com/ping and entering your blog url. Submit your blog to the major search engines in addition to Google. Realize that indexing can take 6 to 8 weeks depending on the search engine.

Garden Gnome
©2009-2010