How to get noticed by search engines and things I have learned so far

Let me start by saying that this blogging is new to me; I’ve been doing it since August 15^th of 2009.  I want to tell everyone that is visiting my blog, how to start this process and what to do after it is started. Now granted there are a gazillion ways of doing what I did and I am still learning it.

Step by step broken down as I learned it, for the newbies like me.

First thing you want to do is open a text document or a pencil and paper and keep track of all the steps you take so you can do many blogs about many things you feel something about. By the way you don’t have to have a new email address if you want to start a new blog page with blogger ok, I made 4 blogs with 4 different email addresses thinking that Blogger would not let me start a new page with same email and its hell to keep track of them all now.

.
1.- I went to www.blogger.com and created this blog to talk about things that I feel newbies like me would find useful, without paying for ebooks and more ebooks.

.
2.- I signed up with Google Adsense  so I could earn some $$, so I could keep buying ebooks and more ebooks so you don’t have to. Ebooks are necessary but "Just do it".  You don’t learn how to ride a bike from manuals! READ ADSENSE Terms of SERVICE "yes you want to read it, if you make a booboo with adsense they are not very forgiving ok" Ignorance of the law does not justify breaking it!

For us newbies (I did not know this) Adsense is a system that Google has which pays the web-owner (you) every time someone clicks on ads Google places on your webpage and after you collect $100.00 dollars, Google sends you a check in the mail. (Since the 15^th of last month I haven’t made 100 yet). But I do have over 500 visitors to this blog :).

Also sign up to Google analytics so you can keep track of how many hits you get to your blog, it’s kinda encouraging to see that ppl are actually reading it and learning in most cases about what you had to type about.

.
3.- I started to blog on things that I know most about, example I know a lot about home insurance coverage, so my 1^st blog was on that, you can read it at bottom of this page if you like or if you need to know what types of insurances there are. After that I kept blogging about programs I have joined, became affiliate with and so on. I love helping others since others have helped me through my entire life.  Thanks ppl!

.
4.- I then read in 1 of my ebooks that I should place my blog in directories so they can place me on search engines, so I did that. By the way, after you find directories online don’t go submitting your page to all of them, you will overwhelm the search engines and they will catch up to it (so I have read in another ebook) I submitted my website to 2 or 3 a week.

.
5.- I also read in another ebook that you should have your blog pinged (not sure what this does) but I searched: ping blog and got a bunch of pinging websites so I did that.

5a.- Find forums on the internet about what you are passionate about and comment in them, ask questions and in your signature box but your blog's address, so you get visitors that way, also email all of your friends and family and tell them about your blog, also go to Digg and sign up with them and leave your address there.

go to facebook or myspace and tell everyone about your blog there too.

.
6.- I didn’t use keywords to optimize this blog or anything like that, since when you start doing this you really don’t need to get caught up in that noise, maybe my blog would be doing better if I did, maybe not, don’t know and don’t care because I’m still learning, and I sure can’t type some post about who knows what just to get ratings. Write about what you’re passionate about. Like example, I can write books about my @#$% neighbors but I won’t because you never know if they will ever read this and one day I find my dogs poisoned or something. I am also passionate about helping ppl like me newbie.

.
7.- Step 1 broken down for you… Please guys or girls PLEASE, all I say to you is: please write about anything you like, just own it inside you, don’t DON’T go blog about dart frogs just because the president of XYZ country ate one and he lived to tell. Just because is on CNN it’s not news… Unless you are passionate about news!... But really really really please feel what you are blogging about.

.
8.- This step is the weird one for the ones that made their blog just to make money. Blogging is not an over-night money maker, it really is not. So with that in mind, you will blog until the cows come home and you will notice that your visitors do not click on your adsense no matter how you set it up, what colors you pick for the ads, where you place the ads. I’m still waiting for adsense ads to pay me so I can go to the store and buy gum with that money. So for you entrepreneur bloggers that think that you can blog about Obama and his health reform and then expect to get hits to your blog and make money from adsense I have a check in the mail for you that will arrive in a few weeks: Reality CHECK! Make payable to: No traffic!

And finally this is not really a step: leave messages on other ppl’s blogs, feed back is great! I learn from it, so please leave me a comment ok. J

.

Thanks for your visits, God bless you in your life, and remember that: everyone still has a chance to be who they were meant to be.