Have you started a blog and now your wondering how to get people to find your blog? As a new blogger myself, I have spent a lot of time recently trying to figure out how to get other bloggers to notice my blog. Here are 5 basic steps to get your blog syndicated faster:
Create a sitemap
This is one of the most important things because most sites traffic comes from search engines. A sitemap tells the search engines all the pages of your site that need to be indexed even if there is no direct link to a particular page. If you use Wordpress, I can tell you that the Google XML Sitempas plugin is perfect. If you use another platform to generate your content, you can get a free sitemap from www.xml-sitemaps.com.
Sign up for FeedBurner
Feedburner provides a universally compatible feed which is compatible with almost any browser. They also provide solutions for your readers to receive emails whenever you produce fresh content.
Sign up at blog Aggregator Services
Sign up at all the blog aggregator services like digg.com and technorati.com. Digg seems to be especially effective these days. Sign up for an account, add lots of friends, digg your friends stories on a regular basis, and your stories will get dugg more too. That means more traffic. For detailed description of how to maximize your digg experience, read “Digg Power User” at earnersblog.com.
Post on a regular basis
You need to post on a regular basis because many of the indexing bots (not just search engines) can tell how often you add new content to your site. The more often your site is updated with new content, the more relevant it becomes.
Comment like a mad blogger
Add comments to everything your look at. If the article title was interesting enough to get you to read it, then its good enough to add a comment. Blogs get read all the time right. So do the comments. The more often you add comments to blogs you read, the more visitors you will get as a result. Every day I add comments to the blog posts I read and every day I get traffic to my site as a result. This can also be called “comment marketing”. Plus, a lot of blogs have their comments indexed by bots so you’ll get indexed on other peoples sites. That’s why its good in the long run not to leave junk comments.
If you not doing these things now then get started because this is the basics!
Wordpress is freaking awesome but at some point you have to tweak your site at least a little bit. Most bloggers end up changing all kinds of things especially if you have downloaded a custom theme from Wordpress.