How to Get Your Blog Listed in Blog Search

Now that you’re ready to share your blog and its contents with the world, get it listed in Blog Search. This will help to increase your blog traffic and build community through your blog. Read on to learn how to get your blog listed in Blog Search.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer With Internet Access
• A Blog

1. Log in to your blog. Go to "Settings," then "Basic," scroll down and select "Yes" for “Add your blog to our listings?” This will allow your blog to be displayed on Blogger.
   

2. Find out if your blog publishes a site feed in XML based format such as RSS or Atom.

3. Enable your site feed if your blog does not publish a feed.
   

4. Go to your "Blog Settings" page. Locate the "Site Feed" tab and click on it.
   

5. Find "Publish Site Feed" and select "Yes."
   

6. Select a "Full" or "Short Description" depending on your preferences.
   

7. Save your settings. A site feed link should appear on your blog, allowing readers who click on it to view your updated blog through their newsreader software.

8. Stay tuned for a new Blogger service coming soon in which you will be able to fill out a form online to add your blog manually to Blog Search’s listings index, in the event that Blog Search doesn’t automatically pick up your blog.

Tips & Warnings

• Once your blog is publishing a site feed—in any format—your blog should be listed automatically. Blog Search should be able to find it and include it in its search listings itself without you needed to do anything else.
• A site feed allows readers of your blog a convenient way of reading your updated blog entries as soon as they are published using special syndicated content-reading software called "Newsreaders” or “Aggregators” that scan for updated blogs, so your readers don’t have to keep visiting your blog waiting for it to be updated.
• If you’re having trouble understanding the concept of site feeds and how they work, as well as difficulty enabling site feeds on your blog in order to get it listed in Blog Search, try visiting Blogger Help or do a search for “Site Feeds.”

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