Noobe Blog Question

[hemotox]

I have 0.8 Beta 5 installed. Flawless. Could not be more pleased. I have made blog entries.

What is not clear to me is how the web would know that my blog exists. Is there a place to go to post/register/announce one's blog?

Thanks in advance.

[garvinhicking]

There are many places to announce your blog on. The easiest way is to get other people linking to you, then it will be grasped by Google. Google is the place to be.

Other services include technorati.com...or search google with 'blog announce' or something like that.

Regards,
Garvin

[Martin]

I get some traffic from technocrati and blogwise (.com), like Garvin says the major traffic comes from getting linked up, which again comes from writing interesting content.

-m

[Big_Bad_Wolf]

I have 0.8 Beta 5 installed. Flawless. Could not be more pleased. I have made blog entries.

What is not clear to me is how the web would know that my blog exists. Is there a place to go to post/register/announce one's blog?

Thanks in advance.

Also, submitting to searchengines (such as google, altavista, dmoz ansd others) might help.
But with several of those it already helps to just get linked to.
For example (and I'm not saying you should spam it on forums - but to name an example) if googlebot spiders this forum or another page on the internet, and it encounters a link to your blog, it will follow that link and index your blog too.

Out of curiosity, what is your blog about?

[Martin]

Google (and others) are being more and more intelligent nowadays, so comment spamming is an extraordinarily bad idea. The same goes for overdoing metatags or repeating words endlessly to get them listed.

Commenting on other boards and blogs is a good idea, but make it useful and don't submit to the urge to post just to heighten your traffic. Content is still your main bet.

Also, don't get discouraged if it takes you a little while. I blogged for about 1-2 months before I got any real traffic.

(Curiously my two main search strings are "Ambigram" and "Everyone else has had more sex than me"... Oh well.)

-M

[Big_Bad_Wolf]

Trust me, I had less sex than you
Even Beavis and Butt-head get more than me, and they are cartoon characters.

My primary search strings were "sheepsex", "funky chicken" and "she-male".
This was before my site even remotely had anything to do with any "real" adult stuff, but just so my audience wouldn't be dissapointed I started working it into the site.
This was before I had a blog, too... now that I'm blogging, I'm aiming for some over-the-hill funny search strings.
Like the size of my um... male reproductive organs and stuff like that.

And yeah, spamming would be bad for search engine placement.
Also, try to get your link in places that are related to what you're catering to.
An example of that:
If the blog is about the many uses of butter and chocolatesauce, getting a link on a major butter-producer's site (or chocolate sauce-producer's) would help search-engine placement (at least on Google, I kinda lost track of how the others do), while having your link appear on a website that caters to people who want to date a rare breed of midget sheep could end up harming your search-engine placement.
And once you get into Google Pagerank (or IF you get into that, I should say...) then there's also the matter of linking to sites with an appropriate PR.
This is related to getting links on the right kind of sites, but there's more to the pagerank-equation... sometimes I think Google Pagerank means everything, sometimes I think it's just an over-rated and over-bloated thing...

[hemotox]

Your input has been invaluable (I need to now figure out how to have little thumbnails in the posts and how to secure a more unique template).

I do not know enough to ask informed questions and like all of you, time is truly a premium.

At this stage, I do not know how to link back to those linking to my blogs (there are two: www.blogviper.com and www.psychological.com/blog ) and one person was kind enough to do so.

I may also have a phpBB as part of the blog.

[Martin]

For linking I recommend signing up at del.icio.us and using the delicious plugin.

-m