ny popular blogger or website writer knows, that a high search engine ranking is key to blogging success. Without it you lose an immense amount of traffic that could be obtained through it. It's probably the most successful, and possibly the easiest way to gain traffic. So you are wondering, how do I submit to search engines… Now our goal is to only give information to you that is free. So here are several free sites that you can submit your link to, to get into search engines. People often think that you need to pay for these. There are many sites that do require you do this, but Don't! They are practically a scam because 99 percent of traffic from search engines will be from yahoo, google, or aol. Don't pay any money for people to add you, there are plenty of free sites that will accomplish what you want. I recommend these sites, Submit Express and FreeWebSubmission. They are both free and easy to use. But they only add you to about 20 sites, which is good but it excludes a few. This is another site I recommend that adds you to about 300 search engines. Meta Net Promotions. Also free but for this one you need to add their link on your page. You will have to decide how important some of your sidebar is to you. I would do it because you can always take it down in a few weeks. These sites will require you to add it, then they will check once to make sure you put it up. But they don't do repeated checks so you can just take it down a couple weeks later, wait a little to be safe. Now let me verify something. Your traffic from search engines will vary depending on what you choose as your keywords. If you write an article about google, you will never get a visit from it. It is to big a site for you to ever possibly rank. So you need to find keywords that are related to your site, but that are still possible to rank for. You can get a good idea of how hard it'll be to rank by typing in the phrase or word on google.com. To the right of the search blank is a number with how many urls it came up with. If it is under one million you have a chance, but to pass the other sites you need to make your site more powerful then theirs, "more coming on this in later posts." Now if you are a beginner you are probably wondering what keywords are, and how to rank for them. Keywords are the words or phrases that appear on your blog. You are most likely to rank higher if you say one phrase multiple times, or if that is the title of your blog, or the url. Say for example that you wanted to rank for poetry. That would be incredibly difficult. So you'd have to be more specific, like dramatic poetry, or emotional poetry. The more words in the phrase the more chance you have of ranking for it; if you use that phrase. If you were trying to rank for dramatic poetry then I'd make that the title of your post, and then mention it at least once in your post, that will help. But like I said traffic with search engines can be easy or hard depending on your choice of keywords. You may work really hard on something and get traffic for something you only mentioned once. But remeber you can never really know how successful a post will be until you post it. Google does strange things sometimes, and can move you up and down randomly so that you could rank for a hard keyword. Now that shows you which sites to submit your url to, and helpful tips on keywords. If you follow the advice you will be another step closer to blogging success.
I recommend not submitting, but rather getting a couple decent links on related sites and letting the bots find you...