LIST OF ALL SEARCH ENGINE IN THE INTERNET

	Google - The world's most popular search engine.
	Bing Search: Microsoft's entry into the burgeoning search engine market. Better late than never.
	Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest search engine on the web (as defined by a September 2007 Nielsen Netratings report.
	AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory. From 1996 powered Yahoo! Search, since 2003 - Yahoo technology powers AltaVista.
	Cuil: Cuil is a search engine website (pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of ex-Googlers and others from Altavista and IBM. Cuil, termed as the 'Google Killer' was launched in July, 2008 and claims to be world’s largest search engine, indexing three times as many pages as Google and ten times that of MS.
	Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90's dotcoms.
	Go.com: The Walt Disney Group's search engine is now also an entire portal. Family-friendly!
	HotBot was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN.
	AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently.
	Galaxy: More of a directory than a search engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the first searchable Internet directory. Part of the Einet division at the MCC Research Consortium at the University of Texas, Austin
	search.aol: Now powered by Google. It is now official.
	Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search and MSN Search) Microsoft's web search engine, designed to compete with Google and Yahoo!. Included as part of the Internet Explorer web browser.
	Lycos: Initial focus was broadband entertainment content, still a top 5 Internet portal and the 13th largest online property according to Media Metrix.
	GigaBlast was developed by an ex-programmer from Infoseek. Gigablast supports nested boolean search logic using parenthesis and infix notation. A unique search engine, it indexes over 10 billion web pages.
	Alexa Internet: A subsidiary of Amazon known more for providing website traffic information. Search was provided by Google, then Live Search, now in-house applicaitons run their own search.
IFAC.com	IFAC.com: For resources and information on Ifrs and Accounting.
	Btjunkie: An advanced BitTorrent search engine. It uses a web crawler (similar to Google) to search for torrent files from other torrent sites and store them in its database. It has over 1,800,000 active torrents.
	Demonoid: A BitTorrent tracker set up by a person known only as Deimos. The website indexed torrents uploaded by its members. Taken offline after legal threats to its Hosting Company by CRIA.
	FlixFlux: From its website, "The ultimate torrent site for films, combining bittorrent search results with film information, making it easy to find new film releases."
	isoHunt, a comprehensive BitTorrent search engine, P2P file search and community. Over 930,000 torrents in its database and 16 million peers from indexed torrents. Avg: 40 million searches per month.
	Mininova: Successor to Suprnova.org - a search engine and directory of torrent files. Anonymous uploads, no IP address logging of users, no porn. over 550,000 torrents in the database, over 4 Billion downloads.
	The Pirate Bay (aka "TPB"): Based in Sweden where torrent trackers are not illegal. No content is filtered or removed as long as it is clearly labeled.
	TorrentSpy: Tracks externally hosted torrent files and provides a forum to comment on them. Integrates Digg-like user-driven content site ShoutWire's feed into its front page.
	Torrentz: Tracks nearly 7 million torrents in a searchable portal.
	Amatomu: The South African Blogosphere, sorted. Amatomu searches blogs with a distinct focus on South Africa.
	Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Sold to Ask.com in 2005.
Blogperfect	Blogperfect: Google Powered Blog Search
	BlogScope: Search & analysis tool for the blogosphere being developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto. Itcurrently tracks over 23.5 million blogs with 275.6million posts.
	IceRocket: An Internet search engine for searching blogs.
	Sphere connects your current articles to contextually relevant content from your archives as well as from Blog Posts, Media Articles, Video, Photos, and Ads from across the Web.
	Technorati catalogs over 112 million weblogs. Known as a kind of gauge for blog popularity as epitomized by its byline of "What's percolating in blogs now". A supporter and contributor to open source software.
	FreeBookSearch.net - Comprehensive book searching portal with more than 30 search engines in its archive, the site searches hundreds of digital libraries and also scours the net for hidden books.

HOW YOU CAN PROMOTE AND DRIVE TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG

You have put a lot of time and effort into creating and designing your blog, writing posts, and uploading content. However, your work is not done yet. To get the most out of your posts and to drive traffic to your blog, you must promote it as much as you can. We will cover several ways that you can promote your blog (the majority are free). Treat this as a check-list and with a little work, you will get the most leverage out of your blog posts.

Bookmarking Sites

• Create an account on StumbleUpon.com and start stumbling your posts.
• Reddit.com is one of the most popular bookmarking sites, be on it.
• Submit each post to Digg.com so that they can be shared with others.
• Help others find your posts when you submit them to Delicious.com
• Being on Technorati.com is a must as it is the top search engine for blogs (even Google says so).
• Triberr.com is a great site to promote your newsest blog posts and get social shares from it.

Social Media

• Add your recent posts to your personal and blog Facebook pages.
• Tweet about your latest posts at least once a day.
• Create a board on Pinterest for you to pin all of your posts to.
• Share your posts on Google+ for additional SEO perks.
• Instagram an image from your latest blog post to grab your followers attention and let them know that you have new content.
• Share on your LinkedIn profile and relevant groups.
• Bloglovin is becoming more popular as Google Reader is going away. Plus, they will drive traffic to you the more followers you have.
• Tumblr is a microblogging site that is perfect for sharing niche-based content.
• Empire Avenue combines social media and networking tools to help you drive network engagement to your blog.
• Quora.com is a question and answer based community. Perfect for your how-to posts.

Your Community

• Add your latest blog posts and URL to your email signatures using WiseStamp.
• Add your blog posts to your email newsletters.
• Share your posts with people in groups or forums that you belong to. Have you submitted your post to be featured as our Favorites of the Week or to our Favorite SHOP Reviews?
• Submit your posts to RSS directories. Your published posts will be published on other blogs automatically.

On Other Blogs

• Comment on other relevant blogs. Be sure to include a link to your blog or include a link to a post.
• Ask influential bloggers to link to your posts.
• Guest blog on other relevant blogs to capture a new audience.
• Join a blogging community and exchange links with other bloggers.

SEO

• Use Google Keywords to promote your blogs via SEO. Their Keyword Tool helps you to search keywords and see how many people are searching for particular keywords and how competitive they are.
• Look in your Google Analytics to see how people are finding your blog now. If it is a specific post, you may want to revisit that topic.
• Add relevant keywords in your image “Alt” tags. Images can be searched for too.
• Link to other posts within your site. This helps to build authority for your posts and keeps your readers on your blog longer.

CAN BLOGGERS REALY MAKE MONEY

Blogs have a lot of buzz, but there's still considerable debate about whether that can translate into profits.

While many blogs remain little more than amateur diaries, several bloggers have tried to parlay their online ramblings into branded businesses. One, Jason Calacanis, co-founded Weblogs Inc., a network of blogging sites that was acquired last year by AOL. Mr. Calacanis has been an outspoken proponent of blogs as business vehicles, arguing that quality content can drive enough traffic to attract advertisers.

But longtime Internet entrepreneur Alan Meckler is skeptical. Mr. Meckler, who is chief executive of Jupitermedia Inc., believes that some blogs may achieve a measure of success, but doubts most blogs will be able to generate meaningful profits.

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense. With three or four ad slots you're gonna do a $3 to $10 RPM (revenue per 1,000 pages viewed) with these automated tools on average. So, if you can do 500,000 pages a month -- which isn't easy -- you can make $1,500 to $5,000 a month. That's today and without a sales person. That number will go up over time and some folks might even be able to hire a dedicated sales person at some point. Solo blogging is starting to pay rates similar to the smaller media outlets (think local newspaper or a small magazine). Walt Mossberg might not be running out the door to start a blog, but it's only a matter of time in my mind.

Alan Meckler writes: Jason, good stuff as usual for one so sharp and original! But look at the number you have in your reply --- 500,000 per month (page views) is virtually unattainable for 99.999% of all bloggers.

My blog only gets about 300,000 per month -- so with your model I might make enough money per month to buy a candy bar. And I have the advantage of getting promotion through the Internet.com home page as well as many links to other bloggers.

LIST OF BLOG THAT MAKE MONEY ONLINE

Here are list of blog that make money online...

1	The Huffington Post	Arianna Huffington	$2,330,000	Pay Per Click
2	Mashable	Pete Cashmore	$560,000	Advertising Banners
3	Perez Hilton	Mario Lavandeira	$450,000	Advertising Banners
4	Techcrunch	Michael Arrington	$400,000	Advertising Banners
5	Smashing Magazine	Vitaly Friedman	$190,000	Advertising Banners
6	Timothy Sykes	Timothy Sykes	$150,000	Affiliate Sales
7	Gothamist	Jake Dobkin	$110,000	Pay Per Click
8	Tuts Plus	Collis Taeed	$110,000	Membership Area
9	Car Advice	Alborz Fallah	$70,000	Advertising Banners
10	Venture Beat	Matt Marshall	$62,000	Pay Per Click
11	Slash Gear	Ewdison Then	$60,000	Pay Per Click
12	Life Hacker	Nick Denton	$60,000	Advertising Banners
13	SmartPassiveIncome	Pat Flynn	$58,651	Affiliate Commissions
14	Dooce	Heather B. Armstrong	$50,000	Pay Per Click
15	Steve Pavlina	Steve Pavlina	$45,000	Pay Per Click
16	Talking Point Memo	Joshua Micah Marshall	$45,000	Advertising Banners
17	Problogger	Darren Rowse	$40,000	Advertising Banners
18	Kotaku	Nick Denton	$32,000	Advertising Banners
19	Shoemoney	Jeremy Schoemaker	$30,000	Private Advertising
20	Coolest Gadgets	Allan Carlton	$30,000	Advertising Banners
21	1stWebDesigner	Dainis Gr?veris	$20,000	Product Sales
22	Joystiq	AOL	$18,000	CPM Advertising
23	PC Mech	David Risley	$16,000	Affiliate Sales
24	Freelance Switch	Collis Ta’eed	$15,000	Membership Area
25	Abduzeedo	Fabio Sasso	$12,000	Advertising Banners
26	Sizlopedia	Saad Hamid	$11,000	Pay Per Click
27	Overhead in New York	Michael Malice	$9,000	Advertising Banners
28	Six Revisions	Jacob Gube	$9,000	Advertising Banners
29	Noupe	Noupe	$8,000	Advertising Banners
30	Expert Photography	Joshua Dunlop	$5,000	Affiliate Sales

HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE

Earning money with use of the Internet is a simple and precise technique. Successful marketers are essentially using this formula to generate easy money flow at home. So if you are interested to get some extra income, then read this article with full of patient and concentration

1. Start with local business means to identify your niche –  it is most important to start your online business with picking your local audience. Because if you go too broad, it became harmful for your business. In a large group, there is a high competition and you are not fully established here. So, if you checked it out, you just find here less profit and high competitive environment.
2. Pick Your Affiliate products - To make money online it is important for you that you should start selling products of other people’s stuff. It is highly helpful to you because with established business you can earn money very quickly than a starting business. Once you come into the thread and experienced the affiliate marketing then go for your own business. Create your own webpage, marketing system and other pieces of online money earning and you should follow what pitfalls to avoid and then go for designing of your products. But you basically earn your commission from selling other people’s stuff.
3. Build Your Target Audience – for a successful business, you have to target some selected audience from every community and build your own mailing list. It will be easy for you if you establish an online forum and start conversation with a community. You have to build up a strong network with the selected group. It actually helps you to earn money online very fast.
4. Establish trust among the audience – You are the person selling affiliate products in the market competing with other entrepreneurs. So, you should establish trust among the group by giving lots of valuable, original and free content to them. These contents are strictly noticed by major search engine like Google, Yahoo etc. So, you must focus your mind in the content that you are providing to interested individuals.
5.  Create your own product and sell to your niche – when you establish a good relationship and strong faith among the community group you can generate a high volume of leads among it. Because you provide them good and resourceful content, they will be quite receptive to your recommendations of tools that could help them to gain success. Now it is time to design your own products with other foundational pieces, and then you will be ready for earn money online.
How to Make Money Online From Blogging. There are over a dozen methods these top blogger’s are using to monetize their blog, different techniques for each niche. Some niche’s are easier to promote products to, some have high paying keywords and some are easy to drive millions of visitors every month! Below is a run down on some of the techniques used.

Advertising Banners By far the most popular advertising method so far in 2009. Website owners love this because they know they are guaranteed the money, other techniques such as affiliate marketing can go up and down a lot depending on what you promote.
C P M Advertising This method is really popular for the website’s that receive a huge amount of traffic, advertisers pay you for impressions rather than sales or clicks! As long as you can predict your impressions which is usually east to do, you know how much you will earn.
Affiliate Sales Selling on commission depending on your niche can be a huge earner and is by far my biggest earner. You promote great products and then get great commissions.
Pay Per Click By far the easiest way to earn money online from a website or blog is from Google Adsense and being paid per click (bylawrence). Can be very lucrative if done right!

Starting an online business( the secret )

The best way to stick it to The Man? Start working for yourself by founding your own company. Working for yourself has some serious and obvious advantages over job hunting. Not only do you determine your own hours and decide where you set up your office, but you keep all the profits too.
Starting your own business doesn't have to mean spending thousands of dollars on setup costs before you ever open your doors. Don't get suckered into spending loads of money on services that you don't need or that have far cheaper alternatives. Seriously:   Here's how to do it. FIRST  what is an online business

What is an Online Business?

An online business works like any other business. It doesn’t change just because it’s online.
You still need to create something people want to pay for in the form of products, services, courses, workshops, or even books.
You need to find the intersection between what you’re passionate about, what you’re good at (or what you want to become good at), and what people want.
It’s not enough to just do what you love.
That’s the first step, but if you want to build a business, there has to be a demand for what you have to offer.
Now, there are many different types of online business models.
The business model I focus on, and that I teach, is often called an information business, where you sell your knowledge and expertise.
You don’t have to be an expert to do this. You just have to know more than the people you’re teaching.

Why Start an Online Business?

The reason I started an online business was because I felt compelled to do so.
I don’t recommend you build a business if your heart isn’t in it. It takes a lot of hard work to build a profitable and solid business.
If you do it right, the rewards are fantastic. You can live anywhere, have more control of your time and do more of what you enjoy in life.
And if you build a business around something you enjoy, it’s even better.
This is more evident in my life now than ever before, because I just had a baby boy with my girlfriend in December 2011.
I get to see him grow up. I don’t have to miss a second of his youth because I work from home.

The setbacks of Running an Online Business

Building and running an online business takes a lot of hard work, time and dedication.
That’s why I recommend you don’t quit your day job right away. Instead, work on your online business on the side and when it takes off, you can reconsider.
You will be your own boss, which means you have to take responsibility for your results. You have to find ways to solve your own problems, and you have to know when to ask for help.
Most people are still in the mindset of relying on others, but if you want to succeed, you have to take full responsibility.
You have to constantly improve what you do, and take massive action despite your fears. To me, this isn’t a drawback, but I realize that for some it is, so I included it.
Running an online business has helped me grow in many ways, because I have to constantly figure out new problems and face my fears if I want to keep moving forward.
Not always fun, but I love it.

How Much Does it really Cost to Start an Online Business?

I get this question a lot, so let’s put it to rest.
The below costs are for an information business. If you want to start an e-commerce store, you’re in the wrong place, because that’s not what I do.
The start-up costs for an online business that focuses on selling information are very low. I have left out tax or legal costs, because those differ from country to country, so you’ll need to talk to someone about that.
I’ve organized the following costs by priority, since they are not all needed when starting out.
1. Hosting (Cost: ~$7-19/mo): You need a website, and you need somewhere to put that website, which naturally means you need a webhost. There are two options. You can go with a self-hosted solution like HostGator, or a service that helps you with the tech stuff, like WP Unboxed, which I use for this site.
2. Email Marketing Service (Cost: $19/mo): If you want to make money online, you absolutely need to build an email list. It may not make sense right now, but it’s essential. If you skip it, you’ll be sorry, so make sure you build your list, and pick the best service provider.
3. Payment Processor (Cost: None Upfront): The standard payment processor that I use is PayPal. But you also have other solutions, such as FastSpring, which help you get set-up and deal with customer support. Payment processors don’t cost anything upfront, but they charge a fee out of each transaction you make, which is usually between 4-12% depending on who you use.
4. Shopping Cart (Cost $5/mo): A simple shopping cart for your products and services that I recommend is E-Junkie. If you decided to go with FastSpring as your payment processor, they also have a shopping cart, so you wouldn’t need E-Junkie.
5. Design (Cost: Depends): I never recommend my clients start with a fancy design. You can get a very good looking website for cheap if you go for simplicity. The price depends on who you work with, what you need, and so on. In the beginning, a premium WordPress theme and a nice logo is more than enough.
As you can see, the cost varies depending on how you want to do things and what you want to start with, but you often don’t have to spend more than $50 to get started.
The two most important parts are hosting and an high-quality email marketing service, the rest can come later.

What You Need to Have in Place Before You Start

Before you do anything, you have to find the intersection between your passion and what people are willing to pay for.
To do this, look for markets where there already is competition. Don’t search for untapped niches, because there’s often a reason why they are untapped.
Don’t run away from competition, because competition equals customers.
What I see most people do is make excuses because they don’t have original ideas and whatever else they may come up with.
However, most of the reasons you think you can’t start a business are probably lies. You can learn how to start an online business if you want to.
You just need to get a few things right before you do.
You have to find the intersection, and then you have to learn to stand out, because when there’s competition, you have to do something to get attention.
I go into all of this in more depth in my Find Your Niche Workshop.

How Does an Online Business Make Money?

When you’re building an online business, what you’re really doing is building a platform (more on that below).
When you have a platform, you get opportunities to make money, so if you’re patient and build a big platform, you’ll be saying no more than yes.
With all that said, there are a few standard ways to make money with an information business, here’s a brief overview of the most popular ones:
1. Digital Products & Courses: Ebooks, guides, online courses, membership sites and audio books are all great ways to create value for people. Once created, they don’t require much maintenance on your part, and the profit margins are excellent, because there’s no storage, shipping and so on.
2. Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate marketing means selling other people’s products for a commission. You can get anywhere between 5-100% for a sale you refer. It’s an easy way to start making money with your business, and it’s an excellent way to complement your products and services.
3. Services: Coaching, consulting and group coaching packages are popular in some markets. It all depends on what your customers and clients want. Services usually mean you have to trade dollars for hours, but they give you valuable insight into your customers’ struggles.
4. Books: Self-publishing is becoming more and more popular these days, but I look at it as a complement rather than sole source of income. It’s hard to make a living selling $2.99-$4.99 Kindle books. Nonetheless, it’s a great way to introduce new people to your work.
5. Other: When you have a solid platform, you’ll come up with many other ways of making money. You can hold workshops, do public speaking, partner with others, and the list goes on and on. That’s the beauty of having an online business; when you do things right, good stuff happens, but not overnight.

Mistakes You Should Avoid

I see a lot of people make the same mistakes over and over again, and it’s no fun to watch.
But sometimes you just have to make mistakes in order to learn, so don’t freak out if you make mistake after mistake.
It took me about two years of failing until things started to click. Forget about becoming an overnight success and focus on the process of building your business one brick at a time.
Here are the mistakes you should avoid:
1. Spreading Yourself Too Thin. Do not start more than one business or website at a time. It may seem like you can handle it, but you can’t. The workload grows the deeper you get into the process, so you’ll burn out if you try. I know you have many ideas, but pick one and focus. Focus on one thing, and stop trying to do everything.
2. Rushing Things. There’s no rush. Yes, you want to make money as soon as possible. I understand that, but trying to go faster will just slow you down. It sounds counter-intuitive, but it’s true. Relax, let things take the time they take, and keep moving forward one step at a time.
3. Obstacles. You will be scared, worried and come up against obstacles that will make you want to throw in the towel. That’s normal, and to be expected. Whether you succeed or not is determined during your toughest moments. Will you give up, or will you keep going? This is not about talent as much as it is about your determination.
4. Get-Rich Quick. You’ll find plenty of marketers selling magical courses and pixie dust. Don’t fall for them. I say this from experience, because I’ve spent thousands buying these courses, and they do not work. What works is good old hard work and a relentless focus on business fundamentals.
5. Expectations. Beware of your expectations, because they can suck all energy out of you if things don’t go the way you expect them to. If you expect to launch your first product and make millions, you will be disappointed (in most cases). Keep your mind open and focus on small successes.

Advantages and disadvantages of online business

Benefits of doing business online may include:

• cost savings in rent and staffing
• greater flexibility and efficiency in product and service delivery
• 24/7 accessibility to customers all over Australia (or worldwide).

There can also be setbacks in doing business online, such as:

• some technical or web knowledge may be necessary
• software and hardware expenses
• risk of online scams and fraud.

THE BEST BLOGGING PLATFORM

Blogging has turn out to become a big time business and has been generating good cash.

Today i would like to share with you some of the best blog platform on the net today. 

The Best Blogging Platforms 

• Blogger
• WordPress
• Tumblr
• Svbtle
• Medium
• Postach.io
• Ghost
• Roon
• SETT
• Jux

Here is our review and analysis of each service :

1. Blogger | Free

This is a Google product and with it, comes the perks of being associated with the internet lord, Google.

It is an (extremely) easy-to-use and free platform that requires only a Gmail/Google account to get started.
Blogger blogs can be customized with new backgrounds and layouts easily. Unsurprisingly, the platform is integrated into Google’s AdSense advertising program (which might make the average blogger enough money for a cup of coffee each month) and other Google services like Google+ (for comments) and Feedburner (for RSS distribution) are easily configured.
You can use your own domains as well. Interestingly enough, we have a Tutorial series for users requiring acquaintance on Blogger as well.

2. WordPress | Free 

19 Percent of the entire World Wide Web cannot be wrong. WordPress has come a long way in delivering one of the most comprehensive blogging platforms on the web today and yet, its free, open-source and highly customizable.

WordPress comes in two flavors, both being free but differ in installation : WordPress.com and WordPress.org. We recommend you to read in more detail about the differences in our earlier article.
You can actually build things like ecommerce sites, news blogs, social networks, aggregating blogs, directories and lots of other stuff apart of simple blogging.
One of the platform’s core strengths is its community of creatives, who have produced thousands of customization’s and tweaks allowing WordPress users to add sophisticated and powerful plug-ins (features) to their blogs, or dress it up in a new layout or design.

3. Tumblr | Free

Founded by a teenager David Karp and Acquired by Yahoo, its an eclectic  mix of the most viral elements on the web : Facebook+Twitter+Blogger.

Tumblr blogs support custom domains, mobile blogging and is extremely easy to set up and use. It is one of the main reasons for memes going viral on the internet today.
It strongly caters to the audience who are always on the go, and wish to speak something more than what is allowed on facebook or twitter, but with the same dexterity and ease of publication. That makes it a different kind of platform to the likes of WordPress, and users — particularly of the younger generation — tend to turn to Tumblr blogs to curate items that they like rather than produce their own content. The “reblogging” feature makes content go crazy on Tumblr.

4. Svbtle | Free

Its stripped-down take on layouts and post creation will be quite inspirational for anyone looking for a focused and responsive and clear-cut experience. Writing, in particular, feels tremendously inspiring despite the platform’s overly simplistic post editor, and page/post layouts do well with trimming off all unnecessary fluff and filler.

However, this soothing simplicity does come at a cost of disparity. With so few customization options available, creating a distinct look and feel for your blog is out of the question. And despite the platform’s custom domain support, your work — much like Medium — is still under the Svbtle banner instead of your own.

5. Medium | Free

You must be a zombie if you do not fall in love with this service at your very first sight. Founded by Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone, It has a ‘social layer’ — which includes a feature letting users edit and annotate other people’s work, while it obviously integrates well with Twitter.

Medium has two strange features : Amazingly good aesthetics and ridiculously rigid rules. You have sign up with your twitter profile and you can start blogging right away. You twitter profile is your address and no custom domain or any type of domain is allowed. You can only put your opinion out there for everybody.

The focus is solely upon clutter-free reading experience. Content is the king here with extremely great typography.

Given twitter’s hyper active users, chances are bright that your articles go viral quickly.

6. Postach.io | Free

From the makers of Evernote, the popular note-taking app, its a kind of hybrid setup of Evernote and a sharing platform. It doesn’t fit the traditional definition of a blog in all its entirety.

The blogging service integrates deeply into Evernote, allowing you to write posts right from the service using a dedicated notebook and set keywords like ‘published’, ‘page’ or ‘avatar’. More than just writing content from Evernote, Postach.io hooks into comment engine Disqus, supports Google Analytics, allows for custom domains, social sharing and also Markdown (Surprised?).

7. Ghost | Free, if self-hosted or $5 per month

A Successful Kickstarter product, Ghost is one platform that many say, might shake up the foundations of WordPress. Its extremely sophisticated, beautiful and blogger-centric.

Ghost is a platform which hits at the point where WordPress took a turn. WordPress diversified, whereas Ghost remains faithful to – Blogging. It promises fully customizable platform, custom domains, plugins and everything which WordPress already offers apart from a Revolutionary Dashboard, Responsive design and beautiful typography.

8. Roon | Free , $12 for self-domain and google analytics

It looks more like a Apple-Centric platform with the promise of a great interface for Mac’s and iOS. Its available for everyone though.

Again, a responsive, typography Centric platform which puts a great focus upon articles over other distractions, which supports multi-blogs, exports, rich-text/markup and also Premium addons – to increase functionality of your blog.

9. SETT | Free

SETT is a new, community-focused blogging platform that promises engagement. Similar in style to Medium and Svbtle, it claims it can help writers get 98 percent more comments — on average — and a lot more attention, just based on its community of users.

The platform allows readers to follow blogs, find similar posts and bloggers, communicate with each other — there’s even a ‘room’ where readers can discuss topics from a blog. The site is clearly focused on engagement, promising to help cultivate an audience and community for its bloggers.

10. Jux | Free

Its gorgeous front page, as well as post layouts offer a wide range of spectacular looks for your written work. The only issue is that while it’s beautiful on the outside, it’s anything but on the inside.

If you’re looking for a little more eye-candy for your blog or official website, put Jux on your radar immediately.

 To submit your blog to search engines you do any of the following
Google
Google's URL submit is very quick and easy.  Just go to Google's web page for URL submitting, type in your URL, type in the message that ensures Google you are an individual not a software robot and click "add URL."
You can also submit your site map to Google via their Webmaster Tools.
Yahoo!
Since 2010, Yahoo search has been powered by Microsoft's Bing search engine. When you submit your site to Bing you will also show up in Yahoo's search results. See below on how to submit your site to Bing.
At Smart Solutions, we add all of our clients' sitemaps to the auto-discovery directive, robots.txt.  This ensures that all of the search engines automatically know about your sitemap.  It does not hurt to manually submit your sitemaps, for the search engines that allow it. 
Yahoo! Directory also has a paid submission process.  The cost is $299 annually for each directory listing that you submit.   We recommend submitting your site to the Yahoo! Directory if you are a commercial site.  Yahoo! guarantees that your submission will be reviewed within seven business days.  If your listing is accepted, the annual fee will reoccur in subsequent years.
Bing
Bing allows you to submit your URL, just like Google and Yahoo!.  Go to Bing's site submission page, type in the URL of your homepage (this is different than Google and Yahoo!).  MSNBot will follow the links from your homepage to all of the pages on your site.  Bing also requires you to identify yourself as a person, not an automated program, by typing the characters that you see in the picture.
http://search.msn.co.za/docs/submit.aspx
Ask
Ask presently does not allow you to submit URLs.  However, they do allow you to submit your sitemap.  Their interface for this isn't as straight forward as the other engines but, you can submit your sitemap by pasting this URL into your browser bar and inserting your actual domain name...
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://<your domain name>/sitemapxml.aspx