Is It Really Necessary To Submit Your Blog On Search Engines?

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. After you create your blog, the first step should be 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. The three biggest search engines are Google, Yahoo and MSN; we will look the ways how to submit your blog on these search engines.

Google crawler likes sitemap to index pages, so your blog should have sitemap.It is advisable to go through your sitemap every now and then to see if it has any error. You only need to submit your blog once on Google; you don't need to submit again, but do not ignore your sitemap.


For instance, if you host your blog on Wordpress, it is good to install Wordpress sitemap plugin which is a good tool that automatically updates your sitemap and send notification 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. Yahoo asks for site feed instead of sitemap to submit your blog. It is wise to add your blog feed on your 'My Yahoo' page, so that your blog can be indexed quickly to Yahoo's version of blog search.

Now let's talk about MSN which is the third biggest search engine after Google and Yahoo. MSN is easiest of all; submit your blog directly. Submission of blog on MSN is a manual process in which you are required to enter the characters on the page for successful submission. One another easy way to submit on MSN is to submit your blog on 'Moreover' news site, because many results which MSN shows are dragged from 'Moreover'.

After you are done with your blog submission on Google, Yahoo, and MSN, ping it every time you update it. Before pinging your blog, you should make sure if you have also presented your blog on all of the directories listed.

These are some of the tips to submit your blog on search engines. After that, promote it by writing new posts and submit them in directories accordingly. This way you can build links and pull traffic towards your blog.