Lesson 9: List with Search Engines
Before money-making bloggers embark on the most important task yet; listing with search engines, I will tell you, this will be the most time-consuming and often daunting part to building a blog. But, to build blog traffic, it is vital. The best way is to take your time, build your search listings organically, watch the effect over a few months.
Here are the steps to begin your search engine listing:
1. Get yourself a free email address that is NOT hotmail or gmail (eg. yahoo). This should be a throwaway address to be used for registering with search engines. Most engines require an email and password set-up, then you may find they send you mail - which you do not want going to your regular email address.
2. Introducing your site - Open a new word or excel doc and save on your computer which will be used to copy and paste from. Write a descriptive paragraph about your site- using the keywords in your meta tag HTML. Search engines have different limits on length so create 100, 150, 299, 500 and 1000 word descriptions.
3. Keyword List - Again, go into your word/excel doc and create a list of your keywords in order of importance. Again, make short lists of 5-10 words and longer lists. Then make comma separated lists (called 'delimited') and lists with space dividers only.
4. Choosing Search Engines to list in can be overwhelming with thousands to choose from, some paid and others free. Many search engine links cease to exist or are riddled with spam over time. So rather than listing hundreds here, I will direct you to the excellent list kept updated by InfoSilencer. Download the InfoSilcencer SEO excel sheet here and begin to work down the list over the next few months, aiming to add your site to 20 per week.
5. Get in Early! Generally search engines start out with free listings then switch to paid-for once they build numbers. So you want to find the good sites when they just open. Info Silencer also have an excellent list of the new sites - view the InfoSilencer list of new search directories here.
6. Using the spreadsheet - Work methodically, first submiting to the recommended links (best chance of getting listed), going down the list in alphabetical order.
7. Very important! Ensure to track all usernames and passwords you use for each directory submission, so you can alter your directory listing in the future.
8. All too hard? If you do not have the time to submit to the directories yourself, there are many comapanies that you can pay to have submissions done professionally. Here are a few companies that can do this for you. Note:I have not tested these, so you may prefer to find your own:
- Info Vilesilencer submission service. They will build your links gradually over a 3 month time period and take into account updates on Info Vilesilencer.
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