1. Submit your Blog Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. And Submit your Blog URL to Google.
Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) is a free web service by Google. It allows you to check indexing status and crawl rate of your blog. It will help you to understand what’s going on with your blog.
The first thing you need to do is verify your blog ownership in Google webmaster tools. Then you’ll have to submit your blog sitemap to GWT. For extra credit, you can also submit sitemap to Bing.
If you don’t know anything about sitemap, here are some information for you. Sitemap is an XML file that contains all URLs of your blog. It helps Googlebot to crawl and index your blog.
Along with GWT, I would also suggest you to set up Google Analytics for your blog. It helps you to track your traffic.
Another thing you can do is, submit your blog URL to Google. Though a lot of people think that it’s not so helpful, But I would suggest you to do that cause it takes only a moment. Just go to Submit URL and enter URL & captcha. Click on ‘Submit Request’.
2. Add your Blog link to your Social Profiles. And Verify Google+ Authorship for your Blog.
Every social media site lets you to add your website link to your profile. Just edit your profile and add your blog link. This includes your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Youtube profiles etc.
Once you’ve added your blog link to your social profiles, now share your blog with your friends in a status update. It will help you to get some social signals for your blog and your friends will know about your blog.
Next thing you’ll need to do is, verify your Google+ authorship. It will add author name on Google search listing.
Read: How to Verify Google+ Authorship for WordPress Blog.
And don’t forget to create social accounts for your blog. It will help to connect with your readers. And it will help crawlers to find your blog easily.
3. Update WordPress Ping list. Manual Pinging is also helpful.
Ping service allows you to notify search engines that your blog has been update.
WordPress has a default ping update service. When you publish a new blog post, WordPress automatically notifies the ping sites.
To update your ping list, go to WordPress Dashboard > Setting > Writing. Scroll down and you’ll find the ping list.
If you want to add more ping sites on the list, here is list of working ping sites for you.
You can also ping your site manually through Ping service sites. Here’s how to use ping service.
4. Start Building Backlinks. Blog Commenting is the easiest way.
One of the best ways to get high rank in search engine is building high quality backlinks. Forget about high ranking, now our job is to get indexed by Google.
Backlink is the incoming link of a website from another website. Whenever you’ve a link on other site, there is chance that Googlebot will crawl the link and find your blog. And finally, index your blog.
Here are some best ways to build backlinks.
- Guest posting.
- Blog commenting.
- Posting on online forums, Yahoo answer etc.
- Article submission.
- And writing quality posts so that others link back to your blog.
Read: Why Your Comments Don’t Get Approved? (And How to Fix it)
5. Submit Your Site to Bookmarking sites, Blog Communities.
As I said Googlebot needs to get your site via links, it’s your job to spread your links on several site. Here some sites that you can use to spread your links.
- Bookmarking Sites – Submit your blog to social bookmarking sites like Delicious and StumbleUpon.
- Blog Directories – Submit your blog to blog directories like Technorati and Blogcatolog.
- Website stats program – There are some sites that keep your domain stats on their directory. You can use IMT Website submitter to submit your blog on those sites.