Creating a Well Designed Site
Search Engines such as Google actively “spider” well designed sites better than non-conformant HTML sites. What I mean by “well designed” sites are sites which conform to W3C code and are rich with content. Websites which are heavy on graphics, multimedia (flash etc.,), split into frames and a long time to load will not be indexed by the spiders as well.

What is site spidering
Movable type
Type Pad
Blogspot

Hosting and Domain Names
Being hosted on geocities or blogger etc., is fun but doesn’t help your promotion. If you get your own domain name (which can cost less than $8 USD) then it’ll help when registering your site with others and search engines.

http://www.liquidweb.com/ (Recommended!)
http://www.dreamhost.com/
http://www.tblog.com/
http://www.nextmill.net/
http://www.freeparking.com
http://www.registerfly.com
http://www.deleteddomains.com
http://www.whois.sc/name-spinner

Using RSS to your Advantage
If you create an RSS file, I’d recommend submitting it to the following:

http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=data
http://www.2rss.com/
http://www.rootblog.com/Ping/
http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
http://bulkfeeds.net/app/add
http://blo.gs/
Geoblogs.com

Promoting your site
There’s many ways to promote your blog – by cold calling, newsletters, adding email signatures, reciprocal linking with other bloggers but one of the most effective ways to get your site added to Search Engines and Weblog Sites.

I’d recommend submitting your sites to the following -

Major Submission Sites:
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?17051064
http://directory.google.com/
http://dmoz.org/

Weblog Submission Sites:
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
http://www.feedster.com/add.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
http://www.weblogs.nu/directory/submit.php?add=top
http://www.bloguniverse.com/
http://www.bloghop.com/addblog.htm
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php
http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
http://www.webworldindex.com/
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
http://www.blizg.com/
http://reader.rocketinfo.com/
http://www.diarist.net/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://www.blogwise.com/bycountry.php (Find your Country and Submit)

General Submission Sites:
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/
http://www.downloads.ukprofessionals.com/ (30k submission web sites!)
http://www.spheri.ca/directories.html
http://www.addurlhere.com/links/add_link.html
http://www.illumirate.com/Illumirate/add_your_site.cfm
http://www.blueuniverse.co.uk/dir/add_url.php?c=47
http://www.geniusfind.com/submit.htm

Making money from your Blog
Sharing your views with others is great, but what if you could make a bit of money from your site? The first place I’d go to is Google Adsense. Depending on the number of visitors you get to your site and level of click-thru’s that you are getting, you could end up making quite a bit of money from your site. I’ve also listed other recommended money making tools also:

https://www.google.com/adsense/
http://associates.amazon.com/
http://affiliates.befree.com/Affiliates/index.jsp
http://www.textads.biz
https://www.willhill.com/
http://www.paypal.com (Make money on referrals)
HTML Tutorial
http://www.tradedoubler.com/pan/index.jsp
http://www.fastclick.com/publish.html
Share Sale
ThinkBling Tools

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