Next you will need to add your blog to the following;

1. Google Webmaster Tools
2. Bing Webmaster Tools

Yahoo Site Explorer is now part of Bing Webmaster Tools and no longer exists as a separate site.

With Google Webmaster Tools you can sign in with the same username and password you use for your.

GMail Account

Or if you do not have one you can setup a

New Account

With Bing if you haven't got a

Live Account

Just register yourself.

For each of these just follow the instructions but what I tend to do is download the document with all the numbers on, something like this,

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Then save it as a Text Document using Notepad and name it the exact same code, nothing else and don't put any full stops in either otherwise it will not be recognised.

Then Upload the Text Document to your Public Folder on Your Server.
Do this for each Site.

After uploading just Click on Verify in each account.

Now as to how long it takes, well some say a few days others take much longer but if you haven't done it correctly all will tell you something is wrong.

Note: If you have done something wrong just go back into your Server and delete the file then start again.