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Ok, so you have set up your blog, configured it correctly and now you are ready to start attracting traffic.  The first step is to get your pages indexed by google and the other search engines.  You are however, one lonely site in the middle of cyberspace and noone knows about you.  We will change all of that.

We will use a 3 step approach to getting indexed quickly.  You should already have your blog set up for SEO and need to have 2 plugins installed:  Google XML Sitemap and MetaBlogPress Ping Optimizer.  If that is not done then read this first.

1.  Compile a sitemap with the Google XML plugin.  Then, start an account at Google Webmaster Tools.  You can use your gmail login if you have a gmail account.  After you login, click add a new site.

To verify using a Meta-Tag is easy.  Copy the tag that google gives you.  Go to WP-Admin, then settings, then All-in-one SEO.  At the bottom, paste the google Meta-Tag in “additional home headers” and update the info.  Click verify on Google Webmaster Tools and you are done!!

Now we need to tell google about your sitemap.  On Google WT click on Site Configuration and then Sitemaps.  When you are on that page, click on Submit a sitemap.  Now in the box that comes up after yourdomain.com/ type in sitemap.xml and click submit.  Now we are done with that.

2.  Next we are going to use the power of Digg.com.  Start an account with Digg, and write a page about one of your posts.  Although you may never get traffic from Digg, their pages are indexed very fast and if everything goes correct, the Digg page with your link on it will also be indexed fast, pointing google’s little spider right to your blog.  You may also want to claim your blog at Technorati, set up a Squido-Lens, or start a profile on a social networking site and leave a link for your blog.

3.  Now we are going to have to use our brains on this one.  Think about what terms people may use to get to your blog.  Search for blogs similar to yours that are popular.  Compile a list of 5-10.  Now everyday for the next few days, you are going to post a comment on all of those blogs linking back to your website.

That is about it.  You also want to write one or two posts a day to get your RSS feed noticed.

Tags: beginner, google, links, seo, wordpress

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