Many of my friends, colleagues, and clients have been asking “Ok Scott, I’ve created a blog. Now how do I get people to visit it?”
There are many ways to drive traffic to your blog. One is to list your blog, and the RSS feed of your blog, with Blog Search Engines. Blog Search Engines are just like traditional search engines, except the specialize in blog content.
Here are a few tips when submitting your blog to Blog Search Engines:
- Only use those that allow free submissions. There is really no reason to pay for a submission to a blog search engine.
- Always list the domain name of your blog, not the URL of the 3rd party blog provider. For example, I list “http://www.scottgordon.com”, not “http://swgordon.wordpress.com”. Why? Because I own and control www.scottgordon.com. I’m want to drive traffic to ScottGordon.com (the domain I own), not wordpress.com – which I don’t own. And, if I decide to change blog providers (from wordpress to blogspot, for example), these listing will follow me.
- Whenever possible, add your blog RSS feed as well. Follow rule #2, and use your domain name as well. For example, use http://www.scottgordon.com/feed/ instead of http://swgordon.wordpress.com/feed/ . And always test the URL of the feed you are submitting before you submit it!
So where do you submit your feed? Here is a list of Blog Search Engine sites:
2RSS
http://www.2rss.com/
Blogdex
http://www.blogdex.net/
http://blogdex.net/add.asp
Blogdigger
http://www.blogdigger.com/
http://www.blogdigger.com/addFeedForm.jsp
Bloghop
http://www.bloghop.com/search.htm
http://www.bloghop.com/addblog.htm
Blogsearchengine
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/add_link.html
Daypop
http://www.daypop.com/
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
Eatonweb
http://portal.eatonweb.com/
http://portal.eatonweb.com/register/
Globeofblogs
http://www.globeofblogs.com/
IceRocket
http://www.icerocket.com
Read A Blog
http://www.readablog.com/
http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
Sindic8
http://www.syndic8.com/
http://www.syndic8.com/suggest_start.php
Technorati
http://www.technorati.com/
Weblogalot
http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping/