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Here is an easy and absolutely free trick you can use to increase blog traffic right away by getting your new blog indexed by Yahoo and Bing.
Believe it or not, but these two search engine behemoths (and not just them) will almost instantly (sometimes within 48 hours or less) index your blog the second one of your visitors includes your blog RSS feed in their search engine specific account.
For instance, Yahoo will spider your RSS feed and blog when a visitor of yours will include your feed into their personal Yahoo account.
Once that happens, Yahoo will do this within 48 hours – an amazingly short time for such a fit, wouldn’t you agree?
More exposure for the blog = increased blog traffic!
To top it off, this process doesn’t cost you a penny.
You can further speed up the process by subscribing to your own feed in your My Yahoo! Account.
Before you do it, make sure you have the following 3 things lined up:
- an account with Yahoo! (duh…),
- your RSS feed URL (it will look something like this http://feeds.feedburner.com/TrafficGenerationCafe),
- and a good amount of posts in your blog (after all, you do not want anybody to come to an empty blog - won’t gain much blog traffic that way:).
Once you are ready, log into your account and immediately after you are logged in, look for an ‘Add Content’ button.
On the next page you will see a search box, to the right of which there will be a link titled ‘Add RSS by URL’. I am sure you know what to do from here.
As a final step though, make sure your feed was added correctly.
You can do so by going to the “front page” of your My Yahoo! account; your feed should be listed closer to the top of the page, like this:
Wasn’t that easy?
Now, you can increase your blog traffic by doing the same with Bing. The steps you will take will be almost identical to those above, so I won’t bore you with repetition.
That’s all there is to it!
Now every time you create a new blog, make sure you add the feed to both your Yahoo and Bing accounts for quick and painless, and best of all, free indexing.
UPDATE: add Google Reader to that list!
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That's an awesome tip Ana. People often overlook Yahoo and MSN because they are so focused in on Google, but they can bring us massive amounts of traffic as well.
Thanks for the cool post
Angel
You are very welcome, Angel. I love finding tips that are easy to implement and can have an immediate effect on our businesses.
I'm reading some of your posts right now, and finding them very helpful! Thanks for posting!
Julie
Thanks for stopping by, Julie, and I am glad I could help.
Hi Ana. Excellent information. One question for you. What did you mean by the front page when you are checking to make sure your rss feed came in OK?
Thanks
Joyce Penner
You are right, Joyce, that was not too clear. I added a picture to clarify.
Also, I recently wrote another post on blog indexing - it has a lot more info and tips; here is the link: 7 Ways To Index Your Blog By Search Engines Within 24 Hours
Hi, I have been thinking of setting up own personal internet site. However, not benevolence with techie facts. Is it troublesome to create a web? Would I need to have to expend time learning programming and coding?
There are plenty of free and paid software to create your website from scratch. Knowing a bit of HTML always helps though.
one of the awesome post I’ve ever seen in this forum. I found this really much beneficial for my future work. Thank a person very much .
Thank you for the info, and followed me on twitter! I was pinging my blog today, your info gave me great help to get more traffic to my blog in the future.
So glad my post was so timely for you, Kei. Happy indexing!