Register Your Blog With Search Engine
If you wonder why your blog doesn’t have any traffic coming from search engine, because you haven’t register it.
We know most blogger are active in technorati, mybloglog and more, but it’s doesn’t mean that when you sign up for technorati or any blog community website, you also register with google and yahoo. So if you haven’t register with any search engine, this is what you can do ..
Decide which search engine you want to register. We recommend the big 3 and you can submit your url by following the URL:
- Google - Google URL Submit
- Yahoo - Yahoo URL Submit
- MSN - MSN URL Submit
After you have submit your Blog URL, just wait for the search engine crawler come to visit and index your blog page.
Some of the blog get lucky if they already have a incoming link point to their blog from other search engine indexed blog or website. The search engine might come to visit your blog this way, but we don’t like to take chances, and it’s easy just to submit your blog URL to the search engine.
After you submit your URL, then what?
In order for your search engine to index all your page, you must ensure that your blog must be able to crawl and index all your blog post and pages.
Seach Engine “Road” Block
- Frame Page
- Javascript Redirect Page or Pop Up
- Dynamic Page
- robots.txt
Well, we have good news for you. We have one simple solution for blogger that will solve all this problems. Google, yahoo and MSN have agree to come up with a better and simple solution to over come the search engine road block. That’s is creating the sitemap.xml for your blog. Search engine will crawl this index xml page instead of all your blog pages. If you are using wordpress, you can download the plugin to generate all your blog into sitemap.xml automatically.
Here is the link :
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final
If you are not using wordpress, try to ask your blog community or google it using sitemap generator with your blog platform.
So by using sitemap generator or creating yourself( you don’t want to do that ), you can ensure you blog being index properly, rather then redesign your website to eliminate “frame”, “javascript”, and rewrite your URL in dynamic page. Nice huh? Indeed, this sitemaps have make our web developer live much easy but in order to maintain it without using an auto-generator will be “hell” for webmaster. Anyway, I’m sure most of the blog nowadays will come with an sitemap auto-generator. If not, it’s time to reconsider your blog platform.
How about robots.txt?
We will talk more about robots.txt in the next guide. For now, robots.txt is the configuration to tell the search engine crawler that which page and folder is allow to index. The BIGGEST mistake new blogger even do it disallow the search engine to crawl all they blog by having the wrong configuration in robots.txt. We will talk more about how to configure your robots.txt for your blog later on. If you don’t have any robots.txt configure, don’t worry too much, it’s default one will be allow the search engine to crawl all your page and folders. But sometime, it’s not a good idea to leave it to default, and indexed all your page and data in the server.
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