4 Simple Secrets to Attract the Googlebot to your WordPress Blog
By Carolyn Elizabeth Blake
Your beautiful WordPress blog is ready to welcome the world, but readers are not arriving. Want to discover four simple secrets to catch the notice of Googlebot? No matter how brilliant your content is, unless Google “sees” it, it will languish. Your blog has to be set up to get Google to it.
The Googlebot crawls the net frequently to detect new content.. To attract Google’s attention, you must do something. The first 3 of our 4 tricks are to set up specific plugins into your blog which mechanically attract Google’s attention. Note: Plugins are not accessible for WordPress.com blogs.
Three Powerful Plugins for WordPress
Install and Activate Log in to your WordPress dashboard and click on Plugins on the left side menu. On your Plugins page, click on Manage Plugins, then Add New. This takes you to your Search Plugins page. Inside the Search Plugins bar, put in the following plugin names you plan to install.
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 put your content in their index.
Write Google XML Sitemaps into the search window. Select it from the list of selections that results. Install and activate it. Settings – Go back to your blog’s plugin page. Find your new plugin and click on Settings under the description. This lands you on the settings page and, the default settings are okay. Select Update Options. You won’t see this plugin as it works silently.
2) OnlyWire
Their FAQ states, “Auto-Syndicate your content to millions of readers with One Button.” No cost for Onlywire if you install the OnlyWire plugin in a blog. You could also be asked to install the “Submitter” into your browser. They give instructions.
Sign up for an account at onlywire.com. Log in and click on My Services. (Find it by clicking on your name after you log in). At this time they offer 39 services; sign up for each by clicking on its icon and going to the site. Put in your log in information for each site. This is a bit time consuming.
When you are finished, scroll down this page to save your info. Return to your dashboard plugins page. Type Onlywire for WordPress in your search plugins bar. Select it from the resultant list install and activate it.
Back on your plugins page; click on Settings under the plugin’s name; enter in your Onlywire username and password, check “Autopost All Articles,” uncheck “Autopost All Article Revisions.” Choose the sites where you got accounts and save changes. Each time you write a new post, be sure that the “Post this to Onlywire” box underneath the text box is checked. It is not a good idea you post revisions by Onlywire. Now when you click on Publish, Onlywire automatically posts to all the services you chose on their website.
3) Tweetmeme
This nifty little plugin installs a “Tweet” button in the top right corner of every post on your blog, so that you and your visitors can Tweet and retweet to Twitter. Type Tweetmeme Retweet Button in your Search Plugins bar. Install the plugin and activate it. You will be asked for your Twitter username and password. Hooray! You can now Tweet!
Secret 4
Post frequently! Google sends its Googlebot out looking for new content. Updating regularly trains the Googlebot to start coming back to look for new content. Your new content doesn’t always have to be epic…more brief postings like a journal entry are worthwhile for when you aren’t able to add major additions.
You also get “backlinks” using Onlywire and Tweetmeme – links elsewhere referring back to your original content. Google LOVES this! Using these four secrets will support you in time in getting your blog content higher ranking on Google.
About the author: Carolyn Elizabeth Blake. I am a grandmother coming out of retirement to work in the internet so I can care for my spiritually adopted Romanian family. I have a degree in anthropology and I love to write! I will not return to the US until I can bring my boys with me.
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