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I asked myself this question so many times, “Can Bing and Yahoo! really compete with Google?” So I documented something last night.

Ok, ok, this morning, at past 2 o’clock in the morning. 🙂

I have to admit, I slept late las night, I mean morning already. I wrote a blog entry for my personal blog and posted it at 11:53pm, just before midnight. Then I finished reading and scanning other blogs that I am subscribed to. I have a habit to read everything before I sleep. It took me a while though to finish reading and scanning them.

Then before I went to bed, I thought of checking the top 3 search engines if the blog entry, Mount Gurten, Wabern, Bern, Switzerland Day Trip, that I posted at my personal blog got indexed. I typed the keywords “mount gurten” in Google, Bing and Yahoo!, and what did I find?

ProBlogit.com ProBlogging Venture Tips and Ideas, Reviews and Opinions has been crawled and indexed by Google. Pro Blog it dot com is 1 month and 2 days old today. It was also a month and 2 days ago when I submitted ProBlogit.com to Google search, MSN Live search and Yahoo search, the day I started writing about problogging. I did not really mind when it will be indexed or crawled by the big search engines but just after a few days, I saw that all the three search engines have already crawled ProBlogit.com.

I just left it that away, and then thought that I might as well document the search results so I can share the reports to you. So after three weeks of being online problogging and that was a week ago, I checked Google search, MSN Live search and Yahoo search.

The image of the screenshot above was taken on April 30, 2009. I only got the above results after searching Google for the second time using the same keywords “problogging ideas”. ProBlogit was ranked number three during the first Google search.

We have our blogs but no one is reading them. That is always the problem of new bloggers. Well, it is not just enough to start a blog, and write content for a blog. We also need to promote our blogs. But before we promote our blogs, let us make sure that we have enough blog entries. If people decide to visit our blogs, we have enough articles for them to read.

There are several ways to promote a blog or a Website.

1. Search Engines

Submit your blog to the search engines. Google, Yahoo and MSN Live are the most popular search engines. The truth is even if I have no content on my websites or blogs, I always submit them to Google Search, Yahoo Search and MSN Live Search. Take note, I just do that for the search engines only.