Anyone can very easily create his/her own blog. 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. Google, Yahoo, and MSN are three major search engines on internet; this article will cover the ways about submitting your blog on these search engines.
Google crawler likes sitemap to index pages, so your blog should have sitemap.Always check your sitemap time by time to ensure that Google is not encountering any errors in it. You only need to submit your blog once on Google; you dont need to submit again, but do not ignore your sitemap.
If your blog is hosted on Wordpress, you can install Wordpress sitemap plugin to automatically update and notify it to Google. If your blog hosting website does not offer you blogging software, you can find free tools for creating sitemaps on Google. Without sitemap, you can still submit your blog on Google Webmasters. Google gives importance to blog directories to pull results, so submit your blog on these directories first, and do not forget to ping your blog when you update it. 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 works differently than Google. 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 Yahoos version of blog search.
Now lets talk about MSN which is the third biggest search engine after Google and Yahoo. MSN works differently; you can directly submit your blog on MSN, and for this you do not need an account. 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 techniques to submit your blog and get more coverage in the search engines. After that, promote it by writing new posts and submit them in directories accordingly. This is the best way to pull traffic to your blog.