Indexing Your Blog in Search Engines

1.)Submit URL to Search Engines:

This is the first step of getting your blog indexed by search engines. You can manually submit your blog to search engines by signing in to the webmaster tools of that search engines. You can submit your Blog here: Google, Yahoo & Bing (When you submit your blog to bing it will get indexed on yahoo too).

2.)Submit Sitemap:

There will be an option on every webmaster tools to submit a sitemap so that the pages and links which are non recognizable by the webmaster tools can be recognized well.

To Generate and submit a sitemap to Google webmaster tools follow the instructions below:

             This section is valid for both regular Blogger blogs (that use a .blogspot.com address) and also the self-hosted Blogger blogs that use a custom domain.


             Here’s what you need to do to expose your blog’s complete site structure to search engines with the help of an XML sitemap.

• Open the Sitemap Generator and type the full address of your blogspot blog (or your self-hosted Blogger blog).
• Click the Create Sitemap button and this tool will instantly generate the necessary text for your sitemap. Copy the entire generated text (see screenshot below).
• Next go to your Blogger dashboard and under Settings > Search Preferences, the enable Custom robots.txt option (available in the Crawling and Indexing section). Paste the text here and save your changes.
• And we are done. Search engine will automatically discover your XML sitemap files via the robots.txt file and you don’t have to ping them manually.

To submit a sitemap to Bing:

In the above screenshot you can see the url

"http://tricktoearnonline.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500"    

Use this generated url as your sitemap to the bing.

Social Networking sites:

            Although social networking sites, use no-follow tags use no follow tags on links so they don’t really help with SEO. But it’s still worth getting your keywords ranked on these pages and can help you to have control over numerous search results for the same keyword. In recent times it’s seen that Google and Bing is paying more attention to proof on how socially your blog performs.Sign up for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, StumbleUpon, Digg, Technorati.

Blogging Communities:

               Recently due to the Panda Effect, blogs who were receiving majority of their traffic from search engines were compromised. Even my blog traffic and rank were compromised from search engines. During this situation I came to know about some great blogging communities. These communities were active and were ranked high in search engines. These communities help me to regain my blog traffic and its rank back in search engines. Though you have to manually submit your article, but its really worth it. Try BlogEngage, Blokube, BlogInteract, BizSugar, IndiBlogger, Blogged, BlogCatalog.

Get Backlinks:

               Try to get backlinks from high PR blog in your niche. Post “genuine comments” on do-follow blogs or comment-luv blogs or write about 10-15 “high quality articles” and submit them as a guest post to high ranking blogs.