Search Engines - Get Yourself a Homepage!

Obviously there are loads of Search Engines that you can submit to. But I would like to concentrate on the top 3 that will bring you the majority of your Search Engine traffic:

1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. MSN

You submit to Search Engines so that they will go and crawl your site with their ‘bots’ and add you to their index. The time it takes them to do this varies, Google takes the longest, with MSN generally the quickest and Yahoo somewhere in between.

So can you speed the process up at all?

Well here is something you could try. Just remember it’s not guaranteed but the Search Engines won’t guarantee you get included even when they find you!

Get yourself a homepage

At Google go to google.com/or .co.uk and sign up for a personalised homepage - there will be a link to ‘get started’ with a personalised homepage. Once set up you will be able to add content to your homepage (your blog) using it’s feed, so every time you update your blog it will be updated on your homepage.

MSN and Yahoo are very similar to set up. You have to create a free email account, and after doing that follow the link to My MSN or My Yahoo and that is your homepage where you can again add content to it using the feed for your blog.

So the Search Engines will hopefully pick you up and index you quicker from seeing this activity.

Another way of doing this with MSN: just type your url into MSN search bar, when it doesn’t come up they will provide a link to ‘send us an address’, click that and submit your feed, easy!

Create Blogs - blog traffic series part 3