Blog Directory Submissions.

You have submitted your blog to the search engines. However, there is a school of thought which holds Blog Directories to be as important as Search Engines. These are collections of Blogs grouped according to subject. They are regularly crawled by the search engines. It pays to submit your blog URL to them...........

There are two types of submissions : paid and free. Depending on your budget you can choose either. There are also sites which offer to submit your blog to x number of directories for a certain fee. There are a large number of blog directories to choose from. You can choose the top directories depending on their Page Rank.


Before submitting blog prepare a file in Notepad with the following particulars :

1. Blog link/URL/address. Open your blog in browser and copy it from the address bar and paste in this file.

2. Blog Title. Copy the title of your blog from the title bar of the browser after opening blog in browser.

3. Blog Description. Describe your blog in around 255 characters.

4. Blog Keywords. If you have put your keywords metatag in your template copy from there. If not see How to submit blog to search engines to insert keywords metatag in template.

5. Your Blog feed URL. For the new blogger layouts the feed URLs are :

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Substitute actual blog name in place of yourblogname

6. Your username and password.

7. The categories your blog is to be included in.

8. Blog Banner URL. Prepare a Blog banner of size 468 by 60 pixels by going to an online banner generator site like cooltext.com. Then upload the banner to a freehost as described in How to Upload files to Blogger. Copy your banner URL from there.

Before submitting some sites ask you to include their link code in your blog. Copy that link code and paste it in a Html/Javascript Page Element in the sidebar. Since there are many blog directories submit your blog to two or three every day so that the process does not become too tedious.

Here is a list of blog directories you can submit to :

http://www.topblogarea.com/
http://www.blogtopsites.com/
http://www.topbloglists.com/
http://www.123khoj.com/top-sites/
http://www.blogrankers.com/
http://www.blogflare.com/
http://www.blogrankings.com/
http://www.bloghub.com/
http://www.blogcatalog.com/
http://www.bloggernity.com/
http://www.bloggernow.com/
http://www.blogarama.com/
http://www.blogexplosion.com/
http://dir.blogflux.com/
http://www.blogstreet.com/
http://outpost-earth.com/
http://blogvillage.gotop100.com/
http://www.photarium.com/
http://www.blogtoplist.com/
http://www.blogtoplist.com/
http://www.getblogs.com/
http://freewebsubmission.com/
http://blogshares.com/
http://indiblog.com/
http://rhyswynne.co.uk/toplist/
http://www.blogmad.net/
http://www.hitagent.com/
http://www.hindiranks.com/
http://www.india-topsites.com/
http://www.misohoni.com/
http://www.getblogs.com/
http://www.worldtopblogs.com/
http://www.link2blogs.com/
http://top.indiasphere.net/
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/blogHome.htm
http://www.globeofblogs.com/
http://www.bloghop.com/
http://www.pegasusdirectory.com/
http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/
http://blog.hotornot.com/
http://topblogs.blogadvance.com/
http://www.topblogging.com/
http://www.mynewblog.com/
http://www.toprankresults.com/blog-submit-list.htm
http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

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Pinging Simplified.

Pinging is a process of attracting the search engines for indexing your blogs....

A Blog is a special type of website which has dynamic content constantly being updated as opposed to a static website. A static website's content does not renew itself constantly. Hence it is difficult to attract the search engines repeatedly to index the site. It may take upto two months for a static website to get indexed while blogs are indexed almost immediately. Blogs, because their content constantly renews itself attract the attention of search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Ping is the process by which a blog notifies a search engine that new content has been added and the search engine responds by sending its spiders which are automated bots or programs which crawl the site and index its contents. You can automate the ping proces s by going to Settings----->Publishing------->Notify Weblogs.com------->Yes------>Save Settings. You can also ping multiple search engines with one click at Autopinger.com or Pingoat.com or Pingomatic.com.

You can ping feedburner at http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/ping.

You can ping Technorati at http://www.technorati.com/ping. To get Yahoo to index you faster create a My Yahoo Account.

After publishing a post ping the search engines with the URL of your post and not the URL of your blog.

At the bottom of your My Yahoo click the Add Content link. In Find Content box clickon Add RSS by url link next to Find Button. In the next window paste your Beta blog Feed url into the text box and click Add.
The URL of your beta blog's feed is

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Substitute your actual blog name instead of 'yourblogname' in above links. This will add the content of your blog to the My Yahoo page and Yahoo will send its spiders across faster. To ping Yahoo faster go to http://www.technobloggie.com/ping-yahoo.cfm. Type in your blog url and click on Create Yahoo ping code. A URL link is generated. The link will be of this type :

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/

Bookmark this link in your browser and at the end of publishing any post just click on this bookmark to ping Yahoo.

Pingback is a process by which Web authors request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. Blogger does not currently support pingbacks or trackbacks.

Blogger instead has the Backlinks feature which enables you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. For example if someone else posts on a topic similar to yours and links back to your post then your post will automatically show a link to the other post. To enable Backlinks go to Settings------>Comments----->Backlinks------->Show--------->Save Settings. These links are shown under the posts with the title "Links to this Post" next to the Comments link. Clicking that link takes you to the post page where all the backlinks are shown under the post and the comments.

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How To Submit Site to Search Engines?

To submit your blog/site to other Search Engines............
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you should know that there are free submissions and paid submissions. Copy and paste the following URLs to the address bar of your browser to go there and submit your site to them.

For Yahoo go here. It is free but you need to have a Yahoo account which is also free. After logging in to yahoo.com click on "My Yahoo" button just under the Yahoo name.

TO VERIFY YOUR BLOG WITH YAHOO YOU ARE REQUIRED TO UPLOAD A FILE TO YOUR BLOG. SINCE THIS IS NOT ALLOWED THIS CANNOT BE DONE WITH YAHOO.

This will take you to a customised My Yahoo page. Scroll down it and click on "+ Add Content link right at the bottom of the page in the center. On the Add Content page click on "Add RSS by URL' link next to the Find button. In the text box add the link for your blog's RSS feed url. In Beta Blogger this is :

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full

Add the name of your blog instead of 'yourblogname' above. Click Add. This will add the content of your blog to Yahoo and its spiders will visit your blog more often.

Add your site to Yahoo Site Explorer by going to :
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/


For MSN go here. This is also free.

For Open Directory dmoz. go here. This is also free but you will have to drill down into all the directories until you find the end directory for your subject. Then submit site URL.

For SearchIt go here. This is also free.

For Exalead go here.

For JDGO go here.

For Mixcat Directory go here.

For IceRocket go here.

For free Website Directory go here.

For Walhello go here.

For AllFreeThings go here.

For Aeiwi go here.

For AddUrlFree go here.

For Sahfor go here.

For Vxbox go here.

For ExactSeek go here.

For All the Web go here.

For Altavista go here.

For Scrub the Web go here.

For Sympatico go here.

For True Search go here.

For Lycos go here.

For Ask Jeeves go here.

To make your site more friendly to the search engine robots limit the content of you web page to 100k. Large Web pages rarely do well in search engines usually because of keyword saturation so be on the safe side and insure your Web page is robot friendly to all major search engines.

Your Title tags should contain maximum of 60 characters. These are the characters between <TITLE> and </TITLE> at the top of your template. The Meta Description Tag at the top of your template should contain keywords and keyword phrases that are important to your site. This tag is of this form :

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Describe your website" />

There should be 150 characters maximum included in "Describe your website". The Meta Keywords Tag contains keywords and keyword phrases that are important to your site. The recommended maximum number of characters for this tag is 874. This tag is of the following format and is also placed at the top of your template :

<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Your main keywords seperated by commas" />

Do not repeat the keywords placed as that is considered as spamming by the search engines.

METATAGS GENERATORS which generate the tags based on your input are located here :

http://www.addme.com/meta.htm

http://www.submitcorner.com/Tools/Meta/

http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html

http://www.anybrowser.com/MetaTagGenerator.html

Just input your blog name and keywords and click Generate.

IMPROVE YOUR METATAGS at :

http://www.bluechillies.com/details/27486.html

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How to Submit Site to Google?

To submit your blog to the Search Engines..............

After completing your blog and postings you have to submit your blog to the major Search Engines. This is because there are millions of sites out there on the world wide web and the search bots/spiders will not come to your site/blog unless you inform them that a site has been constructed and needs viewers.

There are millions of sites on the web and viewers nowadays have to rely on the search engines to inform them of the best site for the subject they are looking for. Unless you submit your site to the search engines they will never come to know of your site/blog.

TO REMOVE YOUR SITE OR PART OF IT FROM GOOGLE INDEX GO TO Removing my content from the Google index.

After submission the search engines send their spiders to crawl over and index your site and putit in their cache. These 'spiders' are automated programs which periodically visit your site to see if you have made any changes to it.

One advantage of hosting your site on the Blogger platform is that Google's spiders periodically visit your site. To add your site to Google head over to :

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

and sign in with your Google Account. Copy and paste the URL of your site/blog into the text box at the top for "Add Site" and click OK. Google adds the site and the next page opens on which click "Verify your Site". On the next page clickdown arrow besides "Choose Verification Method". Here select " Add a Meta Tag" and a metatag is generated for you. Copy and paste this metatag into your template just below the <title> </title> tags. This part ofthe template is the second part outlined in Parts of Template. Save the template. Also add this Metatag :

<meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">

This is so that when Googlebot visits your page it will index it and follow all the links within it.

To prevent Google from indexing add NOINDEX NOFOLLOW instead.

Now Go back to Google Sitemaps page and click on Verify button. Now click on "My Sites" link at the very top of the page under "Google Webmaster Tools". A page opens up to show a list of all the sites you have submitted to Google. Click on "Add a Sitemap" on the same line as your blog/site. The 'Add Sitemap' Page opens up and click down arrow next to "Choose Type" and select "Add General Web Sitemap". In the third line text box under 'My Sitemap url is' paste the feed url of your blog which is :

http://MYBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Instead of 'MYBLOGNAME' type in name of your blog. Click on Add Web Sitemap Button.
This completes the process of adding the sitemap of your blog to Google. There is no need to upload any sitemap file to blogger or to your blog.

If you only want to add your site to Google without adding a Sitemap go to :

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

ADD YOUR BLOG TO GOOGLE BLOG SEARCH

To add your blog to Google Blog Search go here and add your blog URL in the text box provided and click'Submit Blog'.

ADD YOUR BLOG TO YOUR CUSTOMIZED GOOGLE SEARCH PAGE.

Go to http://www.google.com/ig and create a personalised search page. Click on Add Stuff link at the top. In the next page which opens click on 'Add by url' link next to Google Search bar at the top. Enter the url of your blog feed in the text box provided and click on Add. The feed url for classic blogger is :

http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Enter your blog name instead of "MYBLOG" above. The feeds url for Beta blogger are :

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss


ADVANCED GOOGLE SEARCH OPERATORS :

To see who is linking to your blog type "link:http://myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between link and the blog URL.

To see sites similar to your site/blog type "related:http://myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between related and the blog URL. This is a good way of finding out your competing sites.

To see your blog cache in Google type "cache:http://myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between cache and the blog URL. This will give an indication when Googlebot last visited your site.

To see information about your blog type "info:http://myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between info and the blog URL.

To see how many pages Google has indexed type "site:myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between site and the blog URL.

WHAT IS MY PAGE RANK?

Page Rank is Google's patented method of ranking your page according to how many links are pointing to it from other pages on the web. The more the links the more important is your page and it will rise accordingly in Google's search results. When calculating Page Rank more weight is given to a link coming from a page with a higher page rank. Hence it pays to buy links on a page with a higherpage rank then yours. The link should mention the title of your page which in turn should be composed of your keywords.

GET YOUR SITE PAGE RANK

To get the Page Rank for your site paste your site URL in the box below and click on Check Now:

Check the Google Page Rank of your page:

To submit your blog to the Search Engines..............

After completing your blog and postings you have to submit your blog to the major Search Engines. This is because there are millions of sites out there on the world wide web and the search bots/spiders will not come to your site/blog unless you inform them that a site has been constructed and needs viewers.

There are millions of sites on the web and viewers nowadays have to rely on the search engines to inform them of the best site for the subject they are looking for. Unless you submit your site to the search engines they will never come to know of your site/blog.

TO REMOVE YOUR SITE OR PART OF IT FROM GOOGLE INDEX GO TO Removing my content from the Google index.

After submission the search engines send their spiders to crawl over and index your site and putit in their cache. These 'spiders' are automated programs which periodically visit your site to see if you have made any changes to it.

One advantage of hosting your site on the Blogger platform is that Google's spiders periodically visit your site. To add your site to Google head over to :

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

and sign in with your Google Account. Copy and paste the URL of your site/blog into the text box at the top for "Add Site" and click OK. Google adds the site and the next page opens on which click "Verify your Site". On the next page clickdown arrow besides "Choose Verification Method". Here select " Add a Meta Tag" and a metatag is generated for you. Copy and paste this metatag into your template just below the <title> </title> tags. This part ofthe template is the second part outlined in Parts of Template. Save the template. Also add this Metatag :

<meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">

This is so that when Googlebot visits your page it will index it and follow all the links within it.

To prevent Google from indexing add NOINDEX NOFOLLOW instead.

Now Go back to Google Sitemaps page and click on Verify button. Now click on "My Sites" link at the very top of the page under "Google Webmaster Tools". A page opens up to show a list of all the sites you have submitted to Google. Click on "Add a Sitemap" on the same line as your blog/site. The 'Add Sitemap' Page opens up and click down arrow next to "Choose Type" and select "Add General Web Sitemap". In the third line text box under 'My Sitemap url is' paste the feed url of your blog which is :

http://MYBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Instead of 'MYBLOGNAME' type in name of your blog. Click on Add Web Sitemap Button.
This completes the process of adding the sitemap of your blog to Google. There is no need to upload any sitemap file to blogger or to your blog.

If you only want to add your site to Google without adding a Sitemap go to :

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

GET YOUR SITE FUTURE PAGE RANK

Future PageRank Tool © SEO Chat™ URL Valid URL Enter Captcha To Continue To prevent spamming, please enter in the numbers and letters in the box below

To find out the Page Rank install the Google Toolbar which shows the Page Rank for every page you browse when you mouseover it. The page is ranked on a scale from 1 to 10. Google's own home page has a Page Rank of 10. Install the Google toolbar from http://toolbar.google.com/.

To find out full site info for your site go to :

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/indexstats?siteUrl=YOUR SITE URL%2F&hl=en

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