Internet Marketing Tycoon

**sarpras2005@yah** · 01-17-2007, 08:58 PM

Blogging is an important technique for increasing site traffics. It brings more traffic to the website. Blogs provide one way link to your site. It helps search engine ranking. Please post your opinion about blog posting.

**astrojith** · 01-18-2007, 07:01 AM

Well, in my opinion, blogs are much more search engine friendly since they have regular updates. Also, RSS syndication is another way to get traffic to your site. These are some of the advantages that blogs have over normal site. Quite basic

**dougadam** · 01-20-2007, 03:15 PM

Blogging has worked for me.

**nikey** · 01-28-2007, 05:54 PM

blog is more search engine friendly because it is regularly update and fresh content,for me blog is very important to increase my site traffic. I link everything related to my site with my blog post..

**chrishirst** · 02-04-2007, 05:41 PM

blogs are just websites like any other. There is nothing magical about it being a "blog"

If you put exactly the same time and work into any website it would have exactly the same effect.

**ForrestCroce** · 02-05-2007, 01:48 AM

A lot of companies seem to feel this way, although wikis might slowly replace them. Notice Microsoft and Google run blogs; not for search visibility, but visibility in general.

Personally, I don't much like blogging. I have enough to do without coming up with a new missive to fire off to the world on a daily basis. Plus, my site doesn't really lend itself to a blog. I'm looking into offline ways to market my site lately.

**dionak** · 02-05-2007, 02:02 AM

I agree with chrishirst, it would produce the same effect but there's something to be said for the mind-set of blogging. Supposedly, it's daily but I disagree. It should be regular and quality.

Tell a CEO that wants traffic that updating his site regularly will produce traffic and you get...you guessed it, nada. Tell him or her to blog and get them to setup a blog, they start writing regularly. It's a perception issue.

Blogs don't have to be updated daily, but regularly is key. Admittedly, it's hard to do. I find it hard to update my own on a regular basis, but when I do I see obvious results. A blog is often a way to prompt users to update often b/c they think of the daily updates we see on many blogs.

Blog entries also don't have to be completely correct. You can edit them as time goes on. It's important to interact with your commenters to build a community and to be honest. Write about what is interesting to you and admit when you're wrong. It sets a tone of interest, authority and quality.

**princess06** · 02-06-2007, 03:55 PM

^same sentiments here.. blogs are definitely good SEO technique. but you should only place content on blogs if there is a quality content to be posted. i mean, don't post content, just for the sake of having new contents on it. that's pointless.

**InfTekHosting** · 02-09-2007, 03:30 PM

I agree that blogs are important, but you can't just post a paragraph and expect it to get the job done. Content is important, but the style of writing is probably twice as important. If the presentation of information is boring, people will quickly be turned off.

**bob** · 02-13-2007, 10:39 AM

Big advantage with a Blog is that blogs are interactive in nature and more content driven.

**MrBrownThumb** · 02-15-2007, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

blogs are just websites like any other. There is nothing magical about it being a "blog"

If you put exactly the same time and work into any website it would have exactly the same effect.

I don't know if I agree 100%. I have a blog that's over a year old that I have a PR3 on. I never did any kind of marketing or anything like that I basically used it because I was too lazy to use an image host and I would use it to host my pictures of plants (my blog is about gardening) and I didn't post very often. Only in the past few months have I thought about doing marketing and I've submitted my blog to a couple of directories and have link exchanges with people. Before that I only had two links from other bloggers.

In the past month that I've been reading forums about optimization etc...I've been wondering about all the people who are asking about increasing ranking etc...and I'm wondering what the deal is. I never did anything with mine and somehow I ended up with a PR3.

**StrongVibe** · 02-16-2007, 10:58 AM

Blogs are an easy way to get more traffic to your site. SEs love blogs because most have a lot of content. I made a blog about a month ago and my traffic has been increasing every week.

**stOx** · 02-16-2007, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBrownThumb

I don't know if I agree 100%. I have a blog that's over a year old that I have a PR3 on. I never did any kind of marketing or anything like that I basically used it because I was too lazy to use an image host and I would use it to host my pictures of plants (my blog is about gardening) and I didn't post very often. Only in the past few months have I thought about doing marketing and I've submitted my blog to a couple of directories and have link exchanges with people. Before that I only had two links from other bloggers.

In the past month that I've been reading forums about optimization etc...I've been wondering about all the people who are asking about increasing ranking etc...and I'm wondering what the deal is. I never did anything with mine and somehow I ended up with a PR3.

I think what Chris means is, To a search engine, A blog is just a collection of pages on the internet, No different to any other collection of pages. A search engine doesn't know the difference between a forum, a website, a portal, A CMS or a blog. Those are just names we use to describe the way our "pages" are stored and created.

PR is able to be achieved from internal links. They all count.

**MrBrownThumb** · 02-16-2007, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by stOx

PR is able to be achieved from internal links. They all count.

Really?

How much of a movement do you think I could expect in my PR now that I have all of those links in my sidebar(s), posts, plus the other blogs that link to me?

In '05 I had zero outbound links in my posts and a total of 33 entries. I think I had zero blogs linking me. In '06 I had 68 posts and a few outbound links and three bloggers linking to me (I have a higher PR than them) and about four or five links in my side bar. Around September is when I DLed the Google Toolbar and learned what my PR was and wondering what it was brought me to forums like this.

If you look at my entries you'll notice a HUGE spike in posts around Nov/Dec of '06 when I started doing things like link swapping and posting lots of outbound links. And now I'm actively marketing my blog.

What could I expect for the future?

**stOx** · 02-17-2007, 08:07 AM

I wouldn't expect you to get above PR3 unless you get more incoming links. Internal links do count, But links from other sites are better all round.

**MrBrownThumb** · 02-17-2007, 04:47 PM

Hmmm.

It's all rather confusing isn't it? Above you said my PR ranking was possibly achieved because of outbound links but there weren't many that would make me go from 0-3. And now you're saying that if I spend a lot of time making outbound links I shouldn't expect a rise above 3.

This is harder than I thought it would be.

**stOx** · 02-17-2007, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBrownThumb

Hmmm.

It's all rather confusing isn't it? Above you said my PR ranking was possibly achieved because of outbound links but there weren't many that would make me go from 0-3. And now you're saying that if I spend a lot of time making outbound links I shouldn't expect a rise above 3.

This is harder than I thought it would be.

It's not outbound links, It's internal links. Your site linking to it's self.
While these links do count, They don't count nearly as much as other sites linking to you.

**ForrestCroce** · 02-17-2007, 11:52 PM

And it seems like links from sites where you're not able to create links count for more than ones where you can. For example, Craigslist - anybody can post anything for free, and you could even use inline CSS to hide text links. But then every Craigslist post has its content in its own page, which has no inbound links so it's not valued anyway, but links from CL, and most web directories, or blog comments, don't count as much as if somebody puts a link to you on their own personal site running static html.

It's not the technology on the server, it's that links are a lot like votes, and Google doesn't think that much of people voting for themselves compared to the more "organic" way.

**AutoShopLinks** · 02-19-2007, 11:56 PM

Is blogging just another way of posting information? Are there specific site where we can go "blogging"?? Is basically posting threads in a forum considered bloggin? If I am wrong, can someone point me in the right direction? I am interested in blogging to bring visitors to my site because I keep hearing its a good SEO tool. Does anyone know where a good automotive blog is, somewhere where I can post info about my site??