| Every webmaster knows that the free | | | | Ideas" with your own.As a suggestion, |
| search engines are a major source of | | | | why not make your blog a log of this |
| traffic.They also know that applying all | | | | experiment? |
| the SEO techniques in the world will not | | | | Publish your blog by hitting the |
| in itself get their web pages spidered, | | | | 'Publish' button. |
| indexed and listed. Yes, sure, a | | | | |
| "perfect" page, once indexed and listed | | | | Sorry, we're not done yet... |
| will surely rank high for its keywords | | | | |
| but unless it is found by the spiders, | | | | Now you have to go to and open a My |
| it is pretty useless.It is no secret | | | | Yahoo! account. Just follow Yahoo's |
| that the process of a web page being | | | | very clear instructions. |
| found by the spiders can be helped by | | | | Click on the 'Add Content' button. |
| placing links to that web site on other | | | | Click the ' Add RSS by URL' link. |
| web sites (e.g. by doing a links | | | | Paste the 'Site Feed URL' you've copied |
| exchange with other web sites, by | | | | earlier in the 'URL' field and |
| putting one's URL in one's signature | | | | hit 'Add' |
| file when posting on a forum, by writing | | | | |
| and submitting articles for free | | | | You have just added your site's news |
| distribution and placing one's URL in | | | | feed to your My Yahoo! account.Mmm, you |
| the author's resource block etc.) All | | | | don't know what a news feed is? I've |
| of this will surely work but it can take | | | | written a document explaining it all. |
| months before anything happens. The | | | | You can read it here. |
| webmaster has no option but to be | | | | |
| patient and wait...and wait...and | | | | Last step: go to |
| wait.Now there is something very easy | | | | Enter your blog's name and URL (similar |
| and very effective one can do to speed | | | | to mine: |
| up this process. Actually, using this | | | | Select all the services to ping (of |
| method, will get a web page indexed and | | | | which My Yahoo! is one) and click the |
| listed in less than 48 hours. And the | | | | 'Submit Pings' button. |
| whole process is controlled by the | | | | Navigate back to your My Yahoo! account |
| webmaster. It is easy, fast in terms of | | | | and refresh your browser. |
| setting it all up and what's more it is | | | | Scroll to the bottom of the page where |
| free!Here is what one does: | | | | you'll see your blog's feed appearing. |
| | | | |
| Go to and sign up for a new account | | | | Your job is done - the spider bait is |
| (free - they even host the blog on their | | | | ready!Now for a bit of excitement. |
| server at no cost) | | | | Start watching your web site's stat's to |
| Give your blog a name. | | | | see how quickly the spiders find their |
| Navigate to 'Settings' and then choose | | | | way to your web site. You could even |
| 'Site Feed' | | | | throw a free stats counter on your blog |
| Check that the 'Publish Site Feed' | | | | and watch the spiders visiting your |
| option is set to 'Yes' | | | | blog.Next step: Play "blog-and-ping" |
| Copy the 'Site Feed URL' to the clip | | | | every day or so. More often if you have |
| board (you can paste is some where .. | | | | the time! Whenever you feel like it, |
| you're going to use it when you've set | | | | add another posting to your blog. |
| up your my.yahoo account) | | | | Remember to throw in some links to |
| Save your changes | | | | specific pages on your web site.Let me |
| Navigate to 'Posting' and create your | | | | know how successful you were - leave a |
| first entry. | | | | comment in my blog or use my Contact Us |
| What should you write? Anything, | | | | page on my web site.Here's to your |
| actually - your words do not make that | | | | success! |
| much of a difference. What is important | | | | Kind Regards |
| is that you add the URL of each page you | | | | Anne-Marie |
| want listed to the blog. Remember to | | | | P.S. If this article had any value to |
| add them as live links (to enable all | | | | you (and I'm sure it did ;-) ), why not |
| the spiders to follow them!)Mmm, you | | | | read more hot tips in my blog?Anne-Marie |
| don't know how to do a live link? Here | | | | Killer is a mother of two teenagers and |
| is an example. Just copy the HTML | | | | a toddler. She is the webmaster and |
| codelink to Perfect Party IdeasReplace | | | | owner of Perfect Party Ideas, Read her |
| the URL with your URL and the | | | | blog where she documents the process of |
| description ("link to Perfect Party | | | | setting up Perfect Party Ideas. |