A new blogger here on Saipan asked a question the answer to which may be of help to other new bloggers.

I have created my blog. I can see it when I
access it through my google account, but when I do a
google search on the search engine nothing is found. I
have tried to copy and paste my URL address and search
the web but still no results. Any suggestions???

That's a great question which I'm sure other bloggers may have.

The process of showing up in search engine listings is
one that takes time and specific efforts to accomplish.
(and that underscores all the more the significance of what we've been
able to accomplish with welovesaipan.com and what Angelo
has done with his own www.thesaipanblogger.com blog.

In fact there's an entire industry called SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
where experts are paid big bucks to get their clients' sites to appear
high up in the results of a search engine query.

Typically, however, it does take at least a few days to show up anywhere
on the search engine listings. When we launched welovesaipan on Dec 6,
it showed up a day or two later at position 155 for a google search for
"saipan." (that's the 16th page of listings)

So as a reality check, you have to give it a little time.

If you want to become a student of SEO and do all the techie
things that nerds like Angelo (notice how I conveniently left myself out of that one?)
do, you can visit sites like problogger.com and webmasterworld.com
and start the journey up your learning curve.

In the absence of having a budget to hire Angelo or myself to help
you accomplish what you desire a little more quickly, or the inclination
to spend days of your life tweaking website code to entice the search
engines to notice and promote you to the top of the list, you can simply

1. Start posting great content to your blog on a regular basis. As your archives
grow, it will automatically show up higher and higher in the google listings.


2. Consciously use specific keywords in your posts.
Google also has a relationship with blogger.com and it's not
impossible for a post that you do today, for example, on say, the
topic of "saipan schools" to show up tomorrow if someone
happens to do a google search for "schools in Saipan" or other
related topic which you cover in your daily posts.

3. send me a photo and a blurb about "why we love saipan"
so I can add you to the front page of the welovesaipan.com site.

4. Link to and request links from all the other bloggers out there.
(visit Angelo's site for the master list, and don't forget our newest
blogger, Lewie Tenorio of KZMI-FM who just launched
www.saipantriguy.blogspot.com

Walt(Click on a 'Label' category above to read all the posts in that category)