Add URL's manually to improve traffic

Whilst some hosting and blogging services do this automatically for you and plenty of other services fight over your custom to submit your site to numerous search engines with a piece of software, the age old trick of submitting it manually is what you should do if you honestly care about your website or blog.

The search engine battle of the mid to late 90s is no more and the majority of English speaking sites have given in to MSN, Yahoo, AOL and of course google. Many of the old sites ust use results from the main 4 and there's no longer any need to submit your site to them if it is even possible. Blog Directories on the other hand are quite the opposite and another post wll cover that topic seperately.

Submit your URL to the following search engines:

Google
Yahoo.com
Msn.com - Livesearch
Comfind.com
Dmoz.org (open directory takes care of AOL searches too)

There are plenty of services that claim to add it to hundreds of search engines but the fact is that most of them are pointless meta search engines which just take info from these major ones.

Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO: Kingping.com

Another pinging service and one which has a wide range of directories is the website kingping.com, you must register to use it but the registration process is extremely quick, once you are registered you can still submit as many blog URL’s as you like, so this doesn’t rule out people who have more than one. The idea of this is to keep blog directories and search engines informed of your latest blogging activity and to ensure traffic and a more appropriate search engine position.

The website is straight forward enough, the free version is simple but adequate but they do have a more professional service where they charge $1 for the first month and about $17 there after. The service they offer is that they automatically check your feeds several times throughout a day and then ping them.

I’m not sure if this is necessary or worth the money but if you have are a prolific blogger then it may be of use. Kingping ping 60 directories for you covering the UK, US, Germany, Japan, China, Australia, Spanish and French. Once you’ve submitted your site, that’s it – there’s no information whether the ping was successful or not, this leaves me a little curious but may ease others minds.

This seems a reasonable enough service and it’s worth the second it takes to register.

Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO: Autopinger.com

Another useful website to ping your blog in order to gain traffic and readers is Autopinger.com, the website looks a little more scrappier with google ads and a sign up section but it’s essentially the same and just as useful as the two other services I have so far mentioned – Pingomatic.com and pingmyblog.com. Fill in your url and then send to all the checked blog directories (both English speaking and foreign) with one clock. The results page is a little awkward, personally I’m not fond of the circular loading action that takes place and the amount of inevitable red crosses and messages saying that your blog has not been successfully pinged looks a little bit worrying at the beginning. To be honest, this seems to vary each time and I’m not sure if it is a problem with their website, the url submitted or the fact that I may have already submitted the link through another pinging service without the website having been updated. Autopinger.com is my least favourite pinging service but mostly due to the website’s layout. I can’t say that it is any less effective, the amount of directories is not that large and by the time 50% of the pings come back negative, it might not be worth your time but considering it only takes a minute or so of effortless input, I tend to do it anyway.