How do I get my website or blog to appear on the first page of Google search results?
Articles of a blog or website that appear on the first page, let alone appear in the top position, are something very profitable.
Even some people are willing to spend money to advertise on Google ads so that their website automatically appears in the top position without having to bother maximizing SEO techniques.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an effort to optimize the Website so that it appears on the first page and the top position in Google search results.
SEM (Search Engine Marketing) is one of the paid marketing strategies using Google Ads in marketing content on the website so that it immediately appears in the top position on Google searches.
No matter how good your SEO technique is, SEM still appears at the top of the search results (priority), but in SEM you have to pay if you stop advertising, then the website with the best SEO is in the top position.
The following is an example of the difference between search results with SEO and SEM techniques.
But in this article, we do not discuss further SEO and SEM but discuss the first step to building SEO, namely registering a blog with Search Engines.
SEO itself means optimizing the use of search engines. how can you optimize Search Engines if you don't know how to get your blog indexed quickly by the Search Engines themselves.
What are Search Engines?
A search engine or search engine is a program that searches all websites in the world and displays them in a search based on certain keywords.
Kinds of Search Engines:
- Google (Most Popular)
- Bing (Owned by Microsoft)
- Yahoo Search (In collaboration with Google and Bing)
- Yandex (Originated from Russia)
- DuckDuckGo (Doesn't take your Privacy data)
- Baidu (in Chinese)
There are many more types of search engines out there, but in this article, we will only focus on the 3 most popular search engines.
So that you are more enthusiastic in starting the initial steps of SEO optimization, here are the reasons (benefits) why you should be active in registering your latest blog or article to the Search Engine (search engine).
Benefits of Blogs Registered with Search Engines
1. Blogs Have Visitors
Organic Visitors (Organic Traffic) is someone who types in keywords in a search engine such as Google and then visits one of the websites that appear from the search results.
It's useless if your intention is to build a blog with the aim of sharing but your blog can't be found by search engines, especially Google.
Utilizing social media by sharing is indeed an alternative so that your blog can get visits. However, it would be more enjoyable if your blog gets organic visits by appearing on its own in search engines without having to bother sharing on social media.
2. SEO Optimization
The main purpose of this article is not only to register your blog with search engines but also to optimize the use of tools from search engines by registering all articles, especially your latest articles so that they are quickly indexed by search engines (Google). So that organic visitors can find the latest information from your blog articles.
In the next discussion, we will explain how to register a blog and submit articles to Search Engines. There are things you should pay attention to, that is you must immediately submit the latest articles regularly, such as 1x a day, 3x a day, and even 1x a week regularly so that search engines think that your blog is actively updating and indexing your articles immediately.
There are 3 main search engines for you to focus on doing indexing regularly, namely:
- Google Search Console (GSC)
- BING
- Yandex
If you already understand what the process of indexing blogs and articles looks like, you will no longer have trouble registering your blog with more search engines because the way it works is very similar.
1. How to Register a Blog to Google
GSC (Google Search Console) is one of the free services from Google so that webmasters can index their website or blog to the Google search engine and find out its progress.
Not only indexing blogs and articles, but GSC also displays statistics that can help you understand which articles can be reached with certain keywords. Because the discussion is quite long you can visit this link.
2. How to Register a Blog to Bing
BING is one of Microsoft's major search engines. Previously, Microsoft had 3 search engines, namely MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search, but all three were still unable to beat the Google search engine. With a strong determination, Microsoft continues to analyze the weaknesses of the Google search engine to develop its newest search engine, Bing. Because the discussion is quite long, you can visit this link
3. How to Register a Blog to Yandex
Yandex is a search engine that is the national pride of Russian citizens. Before Google, it turns out that Yandex was founded by Ilya Segalovich and Arkady Volozh. Not only functioning as a search engine, Yandex, which is one of the largest media companies in Russia, also has many services such as image search, video, free email services, maps, translate, browsers, and many more. See How to register a blog/website to Yandex
That's enough from the discussion on How to register a blog to Search Engines, if you can index it regularly on some of the Search Engines above, you will get more and more varied organic visitors.
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