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:
- regular content with good keywords
- ping after each addition of new content to your blog
- 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.
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