First SEO steps after Create a blog

Creating a blog is one of the most efficient ways of reaching out to people and establishing a good web presence. After create a website or blog without do SEO, it won't be reached to people or visitor or web readers. Once you have created a blog, start promoting it in the social bookmarking and social networking websites. you will get the desired response from the social networking websites only if a good network is established there. Apart from this, the blog can also be promoted in some of the blogging related forums and communities; however make sure that you abide by the rules set out by the webmaster.

The following steps should do after create a blog :

1) Create sitemap, submit to Google
2) Submit your URL to Yahoo! Google and Bing search engines
3) If you have several posts, social bookmark all of them (eg. Digg, StumbleUpon..)
4) Create a Facebook fanpage for your blog, and get people/friends to like it, and share your posts URL on facebook fanpage with short descriptions each time
5) Create a Twitter account and do the same thing as with the Facebook account sharing method
6) Create a Google Plus Account and do the same thing

These are the immediate steps you can take.

After which for long term SEO, you should
1) Write guest posts with dofollow backlinks
2) Submit articles to article directories
3) Social bookmark all blog posts

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I hope this suggestion will help you to promote a website or blog.