How to make extra money blogging - Step 5 - How to List Your Blog on Search Engines

Step 5 in my 10 part series, "How to Make Extra Money Blogging" - Submit Your Site to Search Engines:

Congratulations! With several posts on your blog, you're starting to get in to a rhythm. You are building some read-worthy content!

Now if someone goes to Google and types in the search bar, "personal finance blogs," do you have any idea how it returns all...hang on, I'm about to try it...17,700,000 results after you hit the search button? I didn't have any idea, so I set out discovering the secret of search engines.

It's actually not that much of a secret anymore. Search engines are inescapable creatures - if the internet is your body, then search engines are your neurons, processing requests for information from your top of your head to the tips of your toes, and at lightening speed.

They are ubiquitous and they are at the core of two of the internet's biggest players, the rising Google and once mighty, yet waning, Yahoo, all the while other tech giants, such as Microsoft, have done their best to grab a piece of this vital pie.

When you want information on the internet, if you are like most people in the world, your first stop now is Google. And most likely, you're reading this post to learn how to get your new blog to show up in any search for the knowledge you're sharing!

Sound technical? Well, it's not...at least as far as we're concerned...not by a long shot. Submitting your sites maybe the easiest step we'll encounter in the journey to getting your blog found.

Simply have your URL ready and some key words and follow these links:

Google URL Submit

Yahoo Search Submit

Sure there are more out there, but I'm just telling you what's worked for me.

I learned you have to be patient, the technologies are not immediate...and you must understand that listing is a long way from showing up at the top of the heap.

You saw the number of results when I typed in "personal finance blogs" - but if I type in "Kick Debts Butt", guess what? Number one! Of course, the name of my blog doesn't mean a whole lot to anyone except me...

So if I type, "Key kitchen conveniences", I discover - much to my surprise actually - that my post on getting a quality rice cooker is number 1 out of 201,000!

Well, everyone loves rice...he he.