Getting Your Wordpress Blog Noticed

Hey! Look at me!

It is everyone's wish to get their Wordpress blog website noticed and indexed by the search engines just as quickly as possible.

There are some urban myths around that this is hard work and you have to submit your site to the search engines.

This myth is often perpetuated by hosting and website design companies as a means of extracting more of your precious money out of your pocket.  However, Wordpress has two great features that make search engine submission completely unnecessary.

First is the RSS feed built in to your Wordpress blog is intended to tell people about your new content. So why not tell yourself – but do it somewhere that the search engines will definitely notice?

Go sign up for your personal page on iGoogle, My.Yahoo and MSN.  These are completely free and allow you to assemble on one page all sorts of information that you may find interesting.

Now why would these big companies provide such a service?  Because they want to know what you are interested in, of course, so that they can target specific advertising to you while you are on-line.  You may not be interested in their advertising but you are certainly interested in taking advantage of this feature.

Then ask yourself how they assemble the information you have selected onto your page?  They do this by taking the RSS feed from the services you select.

But the real gem is that they also allow you to add your own selection of RSS feeds.  So simply add the RSS feed from your own blog to your own personal pages.  Do this on the three biggest players of Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Then ask yourself how they know what you are reading on your personal page?  Answer;  because they are spidering these personal pages constantly to find out what the latest and greatest trends might be.

So there you have it.  The search engines give you the tool to tell them automatically of any new site that you build – and keep on telling them as long as you keep adding new content.

I'll tell you the other reason you don't need to submit your niche market Wordpress blog to the search engines tomorrow.

Bruce Bird

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