Search engine listings

Another new blogger asked how people will get to her blog.

My research tells me there are two ways people get to a blog - from search engines and from clicking on a link to the blog (for example from another website). Join forums, contribute and post your link!

Search engines do something called 'crawling' the internet at regular periods, their automatic systems pick up on new pages and list them. This doesn't happen immediately and the time frame for gettig listed varies quite a lot.

You can do things to help such as use appropriate keywords in the relevant parts of your blog (see keywords post in this blog). Also post regularly on your blog as this also helps.

Of course the above is at the most simplest level to help people new to blogging - I will post more detailed information in the future!