subject: 4 Simple Secrets - Attract The Googlebot To Your Wordpress Blog [print this page] Your beautiful Wordpress blog is all prepared for visitors, but not many people are finding you. Want to know 4 Simple Secrets to attract googlebot? Your blog will languish unless Google "sees" it, no matter how brilliant it is. Your blog has to be set up to attract Google to your blog.
Frequently Google crawls the web picking up content. You have to tweak your blog to grasp googlebot's attention. The first three of your 4 solutions are to put certain plugins into your blog that will without human intervention attract Google's attention.
(Sorry, Wordpres.com blogs do not take plugins)
Install and Activate 3 Powerful Wordpress Plugins
Sign in to your Wordpress dashboard and click on Plugins from the left side menu.
From your Plugins page, click on Manage Plugins, then click on Add New. Now you are at your Search Plugins menu.
Type inside the Search Plugins bar, the exact name of each plugin you need to install.ul>
1) Google XML Sitemaps - From the FAQ, They state that a Google site map is a file for Google to read so that it can add you to their index.
Type Google XML Sitemaps into the search window. Select it from the choices which results. Install the plugin and activate.
Settings - Return to your blog's plugin page. Select your new plugin and click onSettings below its description. This moves you to the settings page and, the default settings are all good.
Select Update Options. You won't see this plugin because it works invisibly..
2) Only Wire - Their FAQ states, With a single button you are able to send out your content to readers by the millions. This service is free when you install the OnlyWire plugin into a blog. You might also be requested to install their "Submitter" into your browser. They give instructions.
Get an account at onlywire.com. Signin and choose My Services. (Find it by clicking on your username in the upper right corner the page after you log in). Sign up for each of the 39 services they post to by selecting the icon for each service on the My Services page. Put in your log in information for each service. You will need some time and patience here.. After you have completed this, scroll down the services page and save your log in information.
Return to your dasboard plugins page. Inside the search plugins bar, type Onlywire for Wordpress. From the list that pops up, click on it to install and activate.
Now you are back on your plugins page; select Settings beneath the plugin's name; put in your Onlywire username and password, click on the box "Autopost All Articles," unselect "Autopost All Article Revisions." Choose the services you signed up for and save.
Now every time you post, be sure that the "Post this to Onlywire" box under the text box is selected. It is not a good idea you post revisions through Onlywire. Now when you click on Publish, Onlywire automatically posts to all the services you enrolled in on their website.
3) Tweetmeme - You will love this ingenious plugin which places a "Tweet" button in the top corner on the right of every new blog post, then your blog visitors, and you, can Tweet and retweet your new content straight to Twitter.
Type Tweetmeme Retweet Button in your Search Plugins bar. Install and activate.
You will be asked for your Twitter username and password. Now you are all set to Tweet!
Secret 4 - Add fresh content frequently! Google sends the googlebot out searching for new content. Frequent updating trains googlebot to begin crawling you more regularlyto check for new content. You don't have to write big posts...shorter posts like a thought for the day are productive for when you aren't able to write bigger changes.
You will also get "backlinks" from using Onlywire and Tweetmeme - links elsewhere referring back to the original content at your blog. Google LOVES backlinks! These four secrets will help you over time to get your blog content ranked higher on Google.
