Just got hooked on to blogging? Register your URL to search engines for free!

And this isn't just it... There's a significant lot more we need to do when it comes to getting attention in this wide world of blogs (over a million blog-posts happening everyday)
Being a novice blogger myself, I won't cover all that you need to seek attention for your blog. Surely though, you can at least make the search engines to throw-up your blog URLs when a relevant keyword is searched for.

Here's what we can do:
1) Add your URL to Google using at: http://www.google.com/addurl/
Most of the search results of smaller/niche search engines are fed by crawlers/bots from Google.
So, adding your blog's URL to Google can not only make them appear in Google's search results (localized country wise) but also in AOL, Euroseek, Netscape and Earthlink.

And that's not it. Google helps you in getting more specific information about your website that can help your attention seeking efforts and tell you about page-hits, links to your page, broken-links, statistics etc. So, after registering the URL at Google, you're re-directed to Google Webmaster Tools.

Google Crawler does some sample searches for your site and provides indexing stats. Lists out various posts on your website, provides information on webpages that link to your website and a list of sites related to your site's name/content.
There are other options like Crawl stats and subscriber stats that offer information on page-hits and other link statistics.


Check-out a whole bunch of tools offered by Google to enhance your blog's visibility and hits on the internet, increase traffic to your site and connect you with interested visitors.


2) Yahoo! offers free website submission as well as paid Y!directory option. Do it at http://submit.search.yahoo.com/

3) MSN/Live is the third most popular search engine. The link to add your website in it's search index is http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

4) Gigablast: Add your website to Gigablast at: http://gigablast.com/addurl

5) Alexa: Add your website to Alexa, using: http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters

6) AOL: If you are registered with Google, your site will appear in search results of AOL as well.

Almost all other search engines use the search index from one or the other above listed search engines to query and show results. So, as long as you are registered (and listed) by the major search engines listed above, you will also appear in search results of many other search engines.

So, don't just blog! Take another step and get other's to read and appreciate your blog by getting your blog searched from these commonly used search engines ;)