Problogger‘s blog had a post about how to get your new blog indexed. I’m going to summarize it for you and me. These are taken from the post and comments. Create a “to do” list or hire someone to add your blog to these sites, preferably with keywords that identify what your blog is about.

  • Get a link from an established blog. You could email and ask a related blog or hit up your blogging friends.
  • Tell Google (I haven’t tested this, some say you shouldn’t have to or that this penalizes you. My guess is that it’s a good thing but you should test it).
  • Add your site to webmaster tools like Google Webmaster Central and Yahoo Site Explorer
  • Create a lens about your blog on Squidoo.
  • Create an account at these blog communities: MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, Blogged and NetworkedBlogs and note that you get your own URL for the page you create. Also, for sure get listed on blog search engine Technorati.
  • Register with sites that give the “value” of your blog:  WebsiteOutlook, StatBrain, CubeStat, WebTrafficAgents, BuiltWith, WhoIs, QuarkBase, URLfan and AboutTheDomain
  • Create a profile for your blog on social sites like Twitter, Delicious, StumbleUpon, on Facebook, etc. There are huge lists of social networking sites where you can create a profile and usually get a unique URL.
  • Keep track of all of your URLs and link to them on your Google Profile page. I need to update mine.
  • Sign up for ChangeDetection that logs when your site changes (and essentially creates new content about your site). Sites like pingler ping search engines when you change your blog.
  • Add your blog to LinkedIn and make sure to change the wording of the link from “My Blog” to a keyword phrase like “Press Release blog“
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6 Responses to “Tips for Promoting your Blog”

  1. sarah jane Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    GREAT post! Just what i was needing to read. Looking for ways to increase my own markets…thanks!!!

  2. Trish Baker Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    you left off get an account with an auto poster service like traffic bug or auto social poster. saves a bunch of time!

  3. Trish Baker Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    Thanks. I will try this.
    :)

  4. Kaitlin Beckman Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    Thanks for the tips NG.

    I didn’t know about ChangeDetection.

  5. NewspaperGirl Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    Thanks for the comments and Trish thanks for the suggestion to add Traffic Bug and Auto Social poster. I’ll have to check them out.

    -Janet

  6. lala Says:
    September 28th, 2009 at 4:00 am

    You can also try http://www.estimix.com – a free tool that provides a nice summary of the website performance.The estimation provided by estimix is the result of a complex analysis based on factors like: the age of the website, the demographic structure of the traffic, the countries where the website is popular and sources of the traffic.

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