When I started blogging and was lost in an ocean of blogs, not knowing what to do to get my blogs noticed, I went to every free blog directory and got my blog listed there. Then I went home, smiling to myself that tomorrow, i will surely see a few hundred visitors to my blog. Did I? I’m sure I don’t have to answer that. There wasn’t a single hit from all those listings that I submitted.
Again, probloggers always remind us to keep track of our statistics. There are literally hundreds of them out there and most you can get it for free but with certain limitations. Most free counters limits your log to 1oo hits. You can still see the number of hits you are getting, but you won’t be able to track them. The 100 figure includes all your blogs lumped together and not 100 for each blog.
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Blog gurus always insist that feeds to blogs plays a very important part in making the blog successful. So in every blog of mine, I add feeds, just because the experts says it helps. Till today, I am still blur as to how feeds can help in popularising our blogs, but since experts says it helps, I just have to follow. There’s nothing to lose anyway, right?
A tip by all SEO gurus when we want to our sites to be indexed by Googles is that we must create a site-map so that Googles spiders will find their way to our blogs. I was quite sceptical about this as when I was blogging on Bloggers, I never bothered with creating a site-map and yet I do get hits from Search Engines. However, I had a change of mind when I got myself involved in some paid reviews and had a few of my reviews rejected the reason being my site was not indexed by Googles. That was when I realised the importance of creating a site-map for all my blogs,
