Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

You have a blog or site and you would like to promote it, but it has not been indexed by the search engines yet. What would you do then? Well, the simplest way to get your blog or site get promoted is to submit it to several search engines like Google and Bing, formerly MSN Live Search. The question now is how are you going to get Google and Bing indexed your blog or site.

I wrote about this topic, on how to get indexed by Google and Bing search engines at ProBlogit.com but I will discuss other sites too. Basically the method is the same for the blog to get indexed by both Google and Bing. I discussed at ProBlogit.com how ProBlogit.com got indexed by Google and how SofieHofmann.com got indexed by Bing.

How to get indexed by Google? Submit your site to Google. Join Google Webmaster Tools and add your blog or site. Write content often and link the blog entry from another blog internally and externally.

How to get indexed by Bing? Submit your site to Bing. Join Bing Webmaster Center and add your blog or site. Write content often and link the blog entry from another blog internally and externally.

Another site that got indexed by Bing is this site, Sehdi.com which was considered by Bing not valid when I added the site at Bing Webmaster Center. I have the impression that because Sehdi.com is being hosted in Switzerland, it was considered invalid at the time when I added it on June 24, 2009. Other sites are being hosted in the United States, so there was no problem adding it to Bing Webmaster Center.

Despite not being able to add the site at the Bing Webmaster Center, Sehdi.com was still indexed by Bing. It was already crawled and indexed before but this time more pages appeared at the search results just like SofieHofmann.com. All I did was, I just submitted the site to Bing. I wrote content for Sehdi.com but not so often. Despite the irregularity, Bing and Google have indexed the site and blog regularly.

Another site especially its two recent blog entries that I wrote the other day and yesterday that got indexed by Google fast was Pandan.ph. Considering that I did not even link the two blog entries from any other blog. The two blog entries appeared on the sidebar though of SofieHofmann.com and that was it. Other than that, I did not do anything.

When I checked Google today with keywords “pandan police”, the blog entry Pandan police arrested former policemen suspected of robbery in Buruanga, Aklan appeared first on the first page of the Google search results. I also used other keywords such as “pandan cops”, “aklan robbery”, “buruanga robbery” and the blog entry appeared on the first page of the search results.

Then I checked Google with keywords “pandan drag race” and the blog entry 2nd Invitational Calixto Zaldivar III Motorcycle Drag Race Cup 2008 in Pandan, Antique appeared also first on the first page of the Google search results. I also used keywords such as “calixto zaldivar”, “pandan invitational”, “pandan motorcycle race” and the blog entry appeared on the first page of the search results.

Pandan.ph was already added a long time ago at the Google Webmaster Tools. It just goes to show that even if you do not submit your blog entry to Google again as long as Google already made a habit of crawling and indexing your blog, then your blog will appear in Google any time and in this case the latest blog entry was indexed by Google within 12 hours.

I just did not check it right away yesterday after I wrote the latest blog entry at Pandan.ph, so I really have no idea when did really Google index that particular latest blog entry. I just learned about it after 12 hours when I checked Google today.

I finally finished upgrading problogit.com, sehdi.com, sofiehofmann.com, weggis.net, pandan.ph, tugbong.pandan.ph, pagtatap.org, psap-parola.org, isyu.info, patria.isyu.info and semirara.isyu.info sites and blogs from WordPress 2.7.1 to WordPress 2.8 Baker. A lot of bugs have been fixed but I guess not everything. There will always be something that will be left behind.

I encountered a problem and that is with regard to the Wordpress 2.7.1 gallery code problem which I already encountered when I upgraded the blogs and sites from WordPress 2.7 to WordPress 2.7.1. To resolve the problem, I just followed what I wrote regarding the solution to WordPress 2.7.1 gallery code problem. Other than that, everything went fine. There were definitely a lot of improvements at the new released WordPress 2.8 Baker. Below is a quick video overview of the improvements at the new released WordPress version.

One remarkable thing that I also noticed was upgrading using the built-in automatic upgrade is now possible with my web hosts here in Switzerland. I had a problem before using the WordPress automatic upgrade which I also mentioned when I upgraded WordPress 2.6.5 to WordPress 2.7 Coltrane because of the safe mode restriction. Although the safe mode is still on, I was able to upgrade the blogs and sites hosted at my web hosts here in Switzerland by just supplying the FTP details.

I did not see anymore those function error notices every time I attempted to use the WordPress automatic upgrade. I do not know if it was corrected on the part of my web hosts or on the part of WordPress. I checked the fixed tickets but I did not find the appropriate discussion about it. Nevertheless, if ever it was on the part of WordPress, thanks again WordPress people!