Comments on: Blogging Helps SEO Efforts – Big Surprise!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:57:01 +0000

Hi PS,
The intention of blogging should be much more than just SEO benefits. By providing excellent content for your website visitors (either blog or articles) this will naturally help drive visitors to your website from the search engines. Also, when you have excellent content that is user focused, it will make other relevant websites over time want to and actually will link to your website.

I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Nick

By: PS

PS — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:29:34 +0000

If the intention of blogging is to add new content so search engine bots will return and index. Since each new blog as you say results to another webpage on the site. Why not just create more subpages and link to them. Do search engine bots discriminate how new contents are added to a site?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:34:18 +0000

Hi Somesh,
Thanks for reading and your kind words

By: Somesh

Somesh — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:31:19 +0000

Hi Nick,
This is very clear and concise – and will be a great help to beginners and help to envision them how blogging can boost their SE rankings.
Thanks again.
Somesh.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:08:14 +0000

Hi Michael,
Thanks for sharing the additional blogging tips with all of our readers!
Happy new year!
Nick

By: DIY SEO Coach

DIY SEO Coach — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:45:59 +0000

Two comments on this posting -

WordPress.com also offers a free Web blogging platform as does Blogger. It is an excellent way to “practice” before going to a self hosted solution. You can even set up as a private blog so no one else can access or see it. I coach people that way by having them alert me when they do a draft. Then I go in and make comments directly to them before publishing, or rewrite depending on our relationship. Some of WordPress’ optional features and plugins are especially helpful in keeping away the spammers.

Did you know you can use Boolean searches on Google alerts? One example is for an exact match bracket your “words in parenthesis”. Be alert that this does not always work…since Google rules the waves, they can pretty much do as they please.

Michael

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:01:33 +0000

Hi Linda,
Thanks for reading and the comment. I would try deleting the Google alerts that you currently have and re-entering them. I normally set them up very broad to pull everything in and then narrow down based on the content that I receive. Feel free to sign up again at the following link:
http://www.google.com/alerts

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:04:11 +0000

Exactly how do the google alerts work? How do they direct you as to what is being looked at or written about? Mine seem to come as one big line of stuff and don’t seem to take me anywhere. Have I put them in wrong? I am certainly missing something. Thanks.