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A new popular pastime called blogging has been catching on with a lot of people recently. Blogging is a great way to express your thoughts and feelings with the world. It is done by publishing your writing on blogging websites. A lot of people have even found ways to make money while blogging.

Before you get noticed however, you must submit your blog to directories and search engines. You must submit your blog in order to get traffic to it. The competition for traffic on the internet can run in the billions. If you do not submit your blog to the directories and search engines you have not chance of getting your fair share.

To be a successful blogger, especially if you want to make money at it, you must learn all you can about internet marketing too. You will need to learn about search engine rankings and all about links and back links. First you need to learn how to submit your blog.

You will be really at a disadvantage until you learn how to submit your blog. You will need to know which directories and search engines are the best ones to submit your blog to. There are tons of directories out there but not all of them are appropriate for your particular blog. There are many different categories. If you submit your blog on the right directories the people who are searching for this category will be able to find you.

When you go to submit your blog to the search engine you will find that it is very much like submitting a website. However, there are a few differences. If you know what the differences are you can get your blog indexed a lot faster.

The first thing you need to do if you want to submit your blog is to create a sitemap. If you want to submit your blog to google this is really a must do. Google likes sitemaps. You will only have to do this once but then you should keep it updated.

You can also submit your blog to MSN and Yahoo search engines as well. Use a blog like Wordpress if you want one that has an easy sitemap plugin. An automatic update will be done when your site is changed. You can use googles free sitemap tools to create your sitemap if you are not using blogging software otherwise.

A good way to submit your blog to the blog directories is to use a site like Feed Shot. After that the only thing left to do is to ping your blog to update it at the directories you have submitted your blog to. To learn more about how to submit your blog you can use the search engines for more information.

Anyone can very easily create his/her own blog. A blog can be created for free on blogging websites, or you can buy a domain to host it. 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.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.

If your blog is hosted on Wordpress, you can install Wordpress sitemap plugin to automatically update and notify it to Google. Google offers free sitemap creation tools, so do not worry if your hosting website does not offer you any software. Sitemap is not a hindrance to submit your blog on Google Webmasters. Google drags results from blog directories, so it is good to submit your blog on these blog directories, and ping your site when you revise your blog. 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. To index your blog quickly on Yahoo search engine, you need to add your blog feed on your ‘My Yahoo’ page.

Now let’s 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 tips to submit your blog on search engines. Afterwards, you need to promote it on consistent basis by writing press releases and articles, and submit them on press release and article directories. This is the best way to pull traffic to your blog.