Get Listed in 5 Days or Less - Blog Ping Technique

OK, now we've talked about these "spiders" that the major search engines send out to find your website and add it to their index, but how do you get a spider to crawl your website?

I'm sure you've heard about "blogging" and pinging. The programs that are out there that "do the work for you" are a dime a dozen. Don't bother wasting your time or money buying one. Just do the work manually, it only takes 5 minutes to get your own blog up and running, and then takes another 5 minutues to set the rest of the technique up. So let's get started.

Step 1: Go to www.blogger.com and create a free blog if you don't already have one. This step should take you no longer than 5 minutes to complete. Once you have your blog you can use it over and over again for this technique.

Step 2: Within your blog admin panel, click the "settings" tab, then click on "Site feed". You need to copy the site feed URL because we're going to use it in the next step.

Step 3: Log into your My Yahoo account (Set one up first if you don't have one my.yahoo.com).

Step 4: Edit your front page. You can add an RSS feed to your yahoo front page so that your blog posts show up in your my.yahoo.com area. To do this click the "Add Content" button on you're "My Yahoo home" page. Then click the "Add RSS by URL" link to the right of the "Find Content" box that is displayed on the next page. Paste your Site Feed URL into this and you're done!

Now each time you make a post on your blog and include the URL of your web page the yahoo spiders will crawl it. We've had sites indexed into the search engines in a matter of days using this exact technique. Your "My Yahoo Home" page will look like this:

Step 5: visit www.pingomatic.com and enter your Blog Site Feed url into the "RSS URL" box. Make sure that the "My Yahoo" box is selected, then click "Send Pings". This will notify your My Yahoo account that your blog should be included. Yahoo will then send out a spider very soon to crawl your blog. Your blog has a link to your website and it will get spidered too! See the screenshot below.