Learning from the pros
Working at being searchable part II: MSN search engine
Time pass so quickly! I have so little time in hand to complete all of my projects (consult previous post)! I currently had submit The 200 Project Blogs to Blog Catalog. I also submit The 200 Project Blogs to some social bookmarking. I am not with it still. But in the meantime, to do a change, I submit my blogs to the MSN search engine.
Submitting The 200 Project Blogs to MSN search engine
Since I already had a hotmail email address, I log into the Live Search – Webmaster Center with my current hotmail ID.
Here are the steps taking in order to register your blog to MSN search engine:
1. Once log in, you will arrived at a page name “Site List”. Click on “Add a site”.
2. Enter your URL under “Web address”. Click “Submit”.
3. A new page show up title “Authenticate your ownership of your website”. Go under “Meta tag authentification”. Copy the meta tag.
4. Save the meta tag just before or after the Yahoo! one in your HTML blog template. Once completed, click on “Return to Site List”.
5. Click on the URL. A message saying that your blog had been authentify will quickly appears. After what, you will arrive to the summary of your URL.
Nice job, your registration is now completed!
I follow those steps for my major blogs. My blogs have now been registered in Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
Next project: complete the registration of all of my blogs to Blog Catalog and complete the social bookmarking step.
Getting started: upcoming projects
Blog Catalog registration
Next step will be to register the blogs I have open recently and who have relevant content. I am thinking of Advertisement for Blogs, International Organization of Prepaid Workers, Happy and Simple Living. At this time, I am currently active on 5 blogs, which is a good start, knowing how much time and effort it can take. Blogging is so much fun!
MSN search engine
Also, I want to register my 5 blogs to MSN search engine.
Social Bookmarking
Another step will also be to register my 4 other blogs to social bookmaking, following the list on socialmarker.com
Those little steps will probably keep me busy for the rest of the week. But the sooner I will be done with it, the better it will be.
What I like about this project, The 200 Project Blogs, is that it’s allowing me to share all the steps I am talking among the way. And I just hope I will be able to reach my goal one day and received a Google check. Wouldn’t be fun?
Working at being searchable: Yahoo! search engine
Here’s a summary of my own steps taking in order to register to Yahoo! search engine:
1. Log in into the Yahoo! Site Explorer with my Yahoo! ID (the same ones you use for your Yahoo! email)
2. Click on “My sites” located on the left column. Inside the space bar, insert your blog address and click “Add My Site”.
3. Click on “Explore” – which is just next to your blog link. You will probably get the result “Invalid Request”. But no problem, continue with step 4.
4. Click on “Submit it for free” and after “Submit a Website or Webpage”. Enter again the URL of your blog and click “Submit URL”. After what, you should be reading the following: “Thank you! Your URL has been added to our list of URLs to crawl. Please expect a delay of several weeks before your URL is crawled”.
5. Return back to the main menu by clicking on “My Sites”.
6. Manually click on the new URL. Right next to “Authentification Status”, click on “New”.
7. Click on “By adding a META tag to my home page”. Copy the meta tag that appears in bold.
8. Open your Blogger account. Access to your blog.
9. In your Blogger account, select “Layout” and than “Edit HTML”.
10. Right on the top of the template, directly below:
head (with symbols <> after the d)
11. Click on “Save template”.
12. Go back at your Yahoo! Site Explorer page. Click on “Ready to Authenticate”. After what, you should read: “Your site has been authenticated”.
I plan to repeat this operation for all of my blogs…
The social bookmarking for my main blog is now completed
About Blog Catalog
I find another great site where to advertise my blogs. This Web site is not from socialmarker.com. It’s call blogcatalog.com. Blog Catalog is very great. You can submit your blog for free. You need to confirm the ownership of your blog by adding one of their widgets or by adding a meta tag in the HTML template of your blog. For my part, I add a widget. The registration for My First 50 000$ is currently Pending. It should take about 48 hours to be completed. Blog Catalog is very nice to consult.
Slowly building my empire one blog at a time: my activities so far
I start the week badly yesterday as I wasn’t up to do that much. I was feeling tired when I wake up and for today, I wake very late, at noon. I arrived from work around 1 AM. After what I usually stay online until 2:30AM – the latest. Usually, I am good to wake up around 10AM and sometime earlier, which I really like.
I begin to slowly begin to feel the result of my hard work on the traffic on my blogs. I am not reaching the 200 visitors per day yet, but the number is slowly increasing and seems to be relatively stable. For all of my blogs included, I have an average of 35 visitors per day. This is not too bad at all, since I start with an average of 10 visitors per day.
Here are some actions I took in order to increase the number of my visitors (all free BTW):
-Social Bookmarking
I subscribe to some social bookmarking that I find on socialmarker.com.
I complete the registration to the first column list so far.
-Active on forum: My Lot and Twitter
-Visit some other people blogs and leave some comments
-Write several posts for my blogs
The results could had been better if I would had work harder in each of those tips, but I am happy with the result I had so far and like I said, I am slowly building my empire… I am still waiting for my first Google AdSense check.
Slowly getting searchable…
But the good news is: I am slowly getting searchable!
Here are some examples of search that came with positive results:
For Advertisement for Blogs
For International Organization of Prepaid Workers (IOPW)
It’s now that I find out that My First 50 000$ is very well index. When I perform the search “prepaid workers”, the first result is coming from My First 50 000$, and not from the International Organization of Prepaid Workers. Intriguing, isn’t? Especially knowing that prepaid workers is from the title of my IOPW blog. I thing that IOPW than should arrived on the first place. But it’s not the case.
But I am not too surprise, I had been blogging for My First 50 000$ for 3 years now and I almost have 200 posts of my original writing in it. The key might be in regular and quality posting. Maybe later on IOPW will become fully searchable just like Advertisement for Blogs or My First 50 000$.
Never without my coffee
Trying to be organize
Time pass by very quickly. I had to leave today to do some groceries and well, in the meantime, I didn’t have the time to write as much as I wanted on my blogs today. Life by itself can be very consuming. And not to talk about working as, in top of that I have 2 jobs… The trick is I am trying to do one little thing per day, and the rest of the time, I can blog or do anything I want. But most of the time, I spend my free time blogging. And when I don’t have time to blog, when I do not even the time write one little post, I just miss it.
I usually connect to my computer as soon as arrived home, which is always around 1AM. And I made myself some coffees. When I don’t feel too much tired, and I easily spend the whole night on the Internet. Once I feel that what I wanted to do is complete, I go to bed. Sometimes, I wake early, sometimes I don’t. I work 7 days a week at my 2 jobs and adding the time to blog to my schedule is not always easy but I enjoy it very much. The best will be to plan a time to write, another time to be active on forums, and some other time to visit some other blogs and leave comments if I have something to say. It could seem like something that can be easily achievable but it’s not. Being an active blogger is not an easy task and the money do not come easily either.
An overview of my writing
So far, I had been active on the following blog:
-My First 50 000$
-Advertisement for Blogs
-Happy and Simple Living
-Homespace
-International Organization of Prepaid Workers
I have other ideas, but I just didn’t have the time to develop others yet. I just to be able to realize the other blogs I have in mind later on as I enjoy all of them, but it’s true I have my favorites one. And will see if I can make money from Google AdSense with all of those original posts of mine. I just like this little challenge!
Feeding my blogs one after the other…
Progress and learning phase
I am still at an early stage of my project, but I had been able to post in many of my blogs so far. I am in the process where I want to develop more content for each of my blogs. But I am quite realist with it. Among my favorite, this current blog, My First 50 000$ and Advertisement for Blogs. The trick is to write in all of my blogs even if I have my preference. At the end, I might only be actively blogging on 3 blogs.
My Google AdSense Challenge and how I plan to make it happen
A have a couple of good ideas for other blogs. But to those different blogs, I need to drive some traffic… I was doing some test; I try to find some key words of mine I had into my recent blogs into the Google Blog Search tool, but I couldn’t find any. Seem like my new blogs have not been indexed by Google yet.
But for this kind of situation, Google has a tool for users of its platform Blogger, its call Add your blog to Blog Search. You just need to add your blogger address in and press the key “Submit Blog” and that’s all. I just did so for all of my new blogs. Hope it will help! I was feeling like almost desperate, not to be able to find my great new blogs on Google Blog Search. But I remember my very first blog, Homespace. For this one, also back than, I had problems at first to find some of my own key words, like my blog was not searchable via the Google Blog Search tool. But it’s become searchable later on. Indexation may take some time, as it’s a blog and not a Web site – maybe its part of the problem. In the meantime, waiting for my blogs to become fully searchable, I can begin to add content and blog like crazy. Sometimes, life is good like that!
Yesterday, I add all of my new blog to my Google Webmaster Central. I highly recommend the Webmaster Central. I am a beginner at building Web sites and blogs, but each time, when I refer myself to Google tools, the result are there and it’s so user-friendly and so simple to use. The only problem I had been with Google Analytic. Just bits more complicate. But I didn’t have time to set-up correctly the whole thing yet.
I just hope to become fully searchable very soon!
200 blogs: I am slowly getting started
Because life is an adventure. To come out with 200 blogs original idea is difficult. 200 blogs represent a lot of work and… a lot of writing lol. As its seem I cannot get published on Associated Content, I do not need any authorization of anyone to open 200 blogs.
In another 2 weeks from now, I will be actively job searching. In the mean time, I want to launch as many niche blogs as possible. It’s really not easy as its sound to come with multiple ideas and concept for all of these blogs. Once I will have a day-time job, the biggest challenge will be to continue my activities as a blogger, write and post and so on… The challenge won’t be that much about ideas but more on time management. 200 blogs will keep me busy-busy. Among the way, I might become more involve in some of them.
What the 200 project blogs is all about…
I lose one of my jobs a couple of weeks ago and since that time, I had been investigating and very work hard at trying to make money online. And one way that appears to be correct to make money online is to start different blogs, with all different contents and original ideas from mine.
So far, I have about 20 good topics for blogs that I feel comfortable with. As for the rest, I do not know for sure if I will be able to build and find ideas for 180 blogs. But this is not really what matter for me. It’s just the fun behind the concept. But I will definitely try to make money online form my blogs – as much as I can possibly can.
I want to launch each blog one-by-one, with valuable content and regular posting. By regular posting, once I will be working during day-time, I mean a monthly or even better, bi-weekly posting. I do not plan to purchase a domain for each blogs. Only my major blog had its own domain address.
This blog will content updates on The 200 Project Blogs of mine and I plan to post in some summaries and comments on my different blogs.
I probably won’t be able to start 200 blogs by the end of May (beginning of June I will begin job searching for a day-time salaried occupation…). The overall project is not about opening 200 blogs by the end of May – it’s to try something different to make it happen. It’s more about self-achieving and « try to » make money online and, by the same occasion, improve my English (I am French Canadian) and, later on, be published on Associated Content (2 times I had been refused already).