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This is the help article on Blogger's Help Center explaining this new change for those that are interested and for my own reference. http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2402711 Mishka Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC Testing Blogger FAQs For GooglePlus

Google just updated their content site and I wanted to note the url for future use. http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/ Mishka Blogger Help Group Blog*Star Testing Blogger

Contrary to popular belief, search engines do not index new content on the web instantaneously. It takes time and effort on the part of the webmaster of any site to get their site indexed and then decent page rank on the search engines. There are several things you can do to help lessen the time it takes to get indexed and decent search results (in no particular order). 1. Make sure your blog is indexable by turning on the listing options in your blog settings. 2. Submit your blog url to the various search engines. For Google, go to this site to get started- http://www.google.com/intl/en/ submit_content.html 3. Read this article from Google Webmaster Central that explains how they deal with content, indexing and search results. http://www.google.com/support/ websearch/bin/answer.py? answer=39334&topic=8996 4. Add metatags with keywords, and descriptions to your blog template- http://mishkatestrun.blogspot. com/2007/04/meta-tag-example. html 5. Link to other blogs o...

You can actually find an answer to this question in several different areas of Blogger. It just takes a few minutes to find. Help center on Blogger.com if you do a search for the word promote in the search engine provided. http://help.blogger.com/bin/ answer.py?answer=42377&topic= 12454 Many of the Top Contributors have written blog articles to help other bloggers regarding promotion and traffic. Here is just one example... http://mishkatestrun.blogspot. com/2007/04/my-solution-for- getting-traffic.html Mishka Official Blog*Star Testing Blogger

You can actually find an answer to this question in several different areas of Blogger. It just takes a few minutes to find. FAQ on this discussion area, in the feeds, promote and search section. http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help/web/faqs Help center on Blogger.com if you do a search for the word promote in the search engine provided. http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42377&topic=12454 On many blogs on the internet that provide help to bloggers. Example is an article on traffic on my blog. http://mishkatestrun.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-solution-for-getting-traffic.html Mishka Blogger Help Group Blog*Star http://mishkatestrun.blogspot.com

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First you need to make sure you have comments allowed in your blog settings. Allowing comments and making comments on other blogs is the first step in getting your url out there and finding other bloggers that have similar interests to you. Second, you need to list your blog with the big search engines...go to google and/or Yahoo and any other one you want to use and do a search for the terms "submit url". You will get directions from them on how to do that for their services and that is the first step to getting traffic. The search engines will not crawl your site for ages otherwise, and even with the submission it takes some time. Then, you need to start putting links to other sites/blogs on your site and hope that they reciprocate because the more you are linked the better your traffic will become and the better your page ranking with the search engines will become. You can become a member of blogging communities (there are many out there) as well and that will help you ge...