Free Pony Theory ~ Must register search engines

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

These are search engin that will boost traffic significantly after registration.
Partial list.

google
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

google blogsearch
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

feedburner
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home

technorati
http://hype.non-standard.net/list

Elbow
http://www.elbo.ws/

Hypemachine
http://hype.non-standard.net/

blogdigger
http://www.blogdigger.com/

Bloogz
http://www.bloogz.com/man_en/add_your_url.php

Daypop
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm

ice rocket
http://www.icerocket.com/

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cannot submit, but nice to watch

http://blogpulse.com

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

This is a list of internatinal search engine/feed registration.

http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000654.html

Singfish. Multimedia search engine
http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/submit.html

automatized ping register. mostly big address.
http://pinger.blogflux.com/

bloggernity
http://www.bloggernity.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi

Sphere.com (small blog search engine)
http://www.sphere.com/about

small general blog search engine (don't know what's the reach)
http://bookmach.com/site/submit

auto wiki news site
http://www.wikio.com/addblog

Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Location: southern California

Squashed --

We would like to be listed on Hype Machine so we can attract more readers. Their requirements are:

1. Advocates responsible use of copyright material, includes buy links in the posts, does not post unauthorized works.
2. Regularly posts updates, generates discussion
3. Has a working, valid RSS/Atom feed.

We think we are doing OK with #1.
We post regularly, but how do we generate discussion when we have 20 readers or less per day (according to Site Meter you recommended)? Both of us often read other blogs and post comments. We get a few visits from this, but very few comments.

What is a working, valid RSS/Atom feed?
We followed your advice about Technorati. Is that one?

Thanks,

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

meh, that's Anthony with his ultra hip requirement. nobody knows what "discussion" is online.. heh

anyway,

- to check if your feed is working (RSS), if Technorati is reading you. That means it's working.

-I highly recommend you register to "feedburner". Some people like using their feed better than RSS. On top of that, they also have good ping service.

- How to get to Hypemachine. In general it's fairly vague since it's done by hand/semi automatic. HM is not some gigantic corporation, it's a personal project. I'll try to talk to Antony to include your blog, I think he'll consider it.

but if he is not available, in general HM likes:

1. stable blog. has been around at least 1-2 months and psot regularly
2. good design
3. not album poster
4. on bigger blog blogroll, or has been mentioned in bigger blog, or Elbow discussion forum.

in general just go around until bigger blog notice ya. (I'll try to mention your blog in BF, maybe that'll do the trick. some blog get on HM list that way)

cheers.

sq.

Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Location: southern California

Squashed--

I saw your comment on the blog too. I will go ahead and sign up with Feedburner this weekend and get Indie Mom (she's the web-brains of our outfit) to put the icon up on the page. I did not understand what this was, but I have a little better idea about it now.

We are still beginners, but I think we are posting as good music as some others on Hype who are also pretty new. We are not professional music people, and we will never be the first ones with the new Shins' album (LOL), but we still have good things to offer. I am happy this week that I introduced someone to Oingo Boingo!

I go around and read other blogs and make comments, and we get some traffic that way. Yellow Stereo, CYSTS, and Berkeley Place link to us, and we get some visits from those links.

Thank you SO much for being willing to help us with Hype. Since we can't do this today, I will come back to this forum and post you a message when we are ready.

~alt-gramma~

Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Location: southern California

I am not at home today, but I had some time and a computer, so I went to Feedburner. Apparently Blogger gives some difficulties, but I managed to get through them and burn a feed.

I sent Indie Mom the site with the directions to change the feed of our Blogger template and put the Feedburner icon on our site.

The feed address will be: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpeedOfDark

Very Happy

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

heya a-g.

- feedburner is a usefull little service on the net. It tracks fee better. (Plus it has better statistic)

- The shins album. Sub-pop is coming down hard on whoever posting the leak. So be carefull. They really don't like it because the leak messes up their pre-release schedule. Word goes around there is general boycott on the blog because they are coming down on Hypemachine... but this sort of thing never hold.

- I emailed Anthony (The Hypemachine dude, nice person) Anyway, just let it roll and I'll email him again next week. He usually is busy.

- Feed. In general it is a good idea to put all option on the page. because some people can only do RSS, another atom, etc. just let reader choose. (From what I notice, it's about 1-2% of reader using feed actively)

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I should open a thread about trying to get audiance shouldn't I? that would be a fun little thread to have. Experiance to share.

Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Location: southern California

We're on Hype! Thank you!

About the Shins -- yes, I know about SubPop's crackdown, and even if I had any of the new songs now I wouldn't post them. I just don't think we're ever going to be in the position of having something that famous before anyone else. We're just really ordinary people who like this music.

There might be sometime when I'm asked to take down a link, and I will do it without any bad feelings.

I have to confess, that whole Feedburner account has me totally confused, but I'm trying to understand it. There were no 1-2-3 directions for beginners, so it was hard to figure out what I was supposed to do. I have subscribed to our blog so I can watch how it looks to others and make sure it keeps updating correctly. I haven't figured out the tools yet.

I'm much more comfortable with Site Meter for getting details of who visits. That's how I found out we are now listed on Hype--somebody linked to us from there! Very Happy

YES to the idea of a thread about how to get and keep an audience. I'd be interested, and I would participate. I think that now our site should publish some songs and artists that will appear in the most popular searches so our name gets noticed..

Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

Hi Squashed,
I came across this forum through a comment you made at BerkeleyPlace.

I was rejected by the Hype Machine, too, though I don't really know why.

Here's my blog.

About the requirements on the Submit page.

1. Well, my blog has been around for almost a year now, and I do post buy links and all. I think I pass this one.
2. Yes to both. There are comments, just not so many yet.
3.I already had FeedBurner. But I entered the feeds link Blogger provided when submitting my blog. I wasn't sure if it's still working or not.

About the 4 points you state:

1.Yes.
2.Well I have no idea how to make custom templates and all, so I use Blogger's template. But many blogs on Hype Machine don't have their own templates, either. Anyway, I do think I have a fancy sidebar.
3.Definitely not.
4.I'm already listed at Elbows, the blog has been mentioned on VH1's Best Week Ever blog a few times now (is it considered 'big'?), and it just hit the 100,000 page views mark. I already built relationship with a number of record labels/pr companies.

So what you think about my chances?
Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Zeon.

Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Location: southern California

Zeon -

I looked at your blog, and it looks pretty good to me. Were you actually rejected by Hype, or did you just not get a response? That happened to us too. If you just didn't hear anything, try again and include your feed URL in the message.

Although being listed on Hype helped us a lot, it can also be the source of daily headaches when for some reason your posts aren't picked up or your tracks don't appear on the list. I'm pulling my hair out over those issues right now.

I sent you a friend request on MySpace.

We have only been blogging since last September, and it's been huge learning experience. Best of luck,

~alt-gramma~
at http://speedofdark-web.blogspot.com/