SEO Tycoon

**mohit80** · 01-09-2012, 05:22 AM

Should I create a blog for SEO purposes?

**PaulW** · 01-09-2012, 12:22 PM

IF you can provide regular, quality, original content.

**chrishirst** · 01-09-2012, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by mohit80

Should I create a blog for SEO purposes?

Absolute, total, outright NO!!!!

**vultren** · 01-09-2012, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

Absolute, total, outright NO!!!!

Details?

**chrishirst** · 01-10-2012, 07:27 AM

A blog is NOT a SEO tool, they have no magic properties, and by having blog AND an "official website" you have TWO sets of pages to promote.

If you want people to visit the "official" site, put the same information there as you would on a "blog", then if people DO link to the content, it's a first hand link to the main site rather than one that is devalued by intermediate page.

That seems like a win/win scenario to me.
You are not forcing visitors to click through TWO sites to get to where they can give you their money (or click on your adverts).

Lets face it, do 7-11 send you to Walmart first, then out of a side door into their store, or do Burger King route you through a MacDonalds?

Get your traffic to where you want it not to some halfway house, then whinge and whine about the "bounce rate" being "high".

I've said this many times and I'll probably say it again in the future, but read "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug.

**vultren** · 01-10-2012, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

A blog is NOT a SEO tool, they have no magic properties, and by having blog AND an "official website" you have TWO sets of pages to promote.

If you want people to visit the "official" site, put the same information there as you would on a "blog", then if people DO link to the content, it's a first hand link to the main site rather than one that is devalued by intermediate page.

http://www.seomoz.org
See how they do their blog? They have it on the home page, but the content they put on there complements the other services they sell.

Some sites want to run this way, home page and blog and not stick to a strict Engadget.com type of website.

**maxpry** · 01-10-2012, 06:35 PM

know the SEO purpose on website search engine optimization

**chrishirst** · 01-10-2012, 06:56 PM

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See how they do their blog? They have it on the home page, but the content they put on there complements the other services they sell.

So they put the content on the "main" website, is that not what I suggested??

Whether it is on the site root or in a sub folder called "blog", "bits-&-pieces" or "things" it is STILL on the one parent url and is part of the overall navigational structure.

It is not a blog in the real sense of a "chronological weblog", it is simply being used for site content management, a simple way to add content to the website.

**SteveCrossland** · 01-11-2012, 04:47 AM

SEO Search engine optimization, one of the battles across the web. The challenge on how you put your page on top. Optimizing a page is not that easy it requires knowledge and a advance SEO techniques to achieve a better rank.

**payment proof** · 01-11-2012, 07:27 PM

I think every blog or site should have an SEO purpose.

**diyakapoor** · 01-12-2012, 01:48 AM

Yes, a blog is very helpful in SEO purpose. Daily update the blog and build back links from blog to your website. This will help in improving SERP of your website

**vultren** · 01-12-2012, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by diyakapoor

Yes, a blog is very helpful in SEO purpose. Daily update the blog and build back links from blog to your website. This will help in improving SERP of your website

Oh come on!!!! Did you not read the Noble man's post just a few above your own?! :

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

A blog is NOT a SEO tool, they have no magic properties, and by having blog AND an "official website" you have TWO sets of pages to promote.

If you want people to visit the "official" site, put the same information there as you would on a "blog", then if people DO link to the content, it's a first hand link to the main site rather than one that is devalued by intermediate page.

That seems like a win/win scenario to me.
You are not forcing visitors to click through TWO sites to get to where they can give you their money (or click on your adverts).

Lets face it, do 7-11 send you to Walmart first, then out of a side door into their store, or do Burger King route you through a MacDonalds?

Get your traffic to where you want it not to some halfway house, then whinge and whine about the "bounce rate" being "high".

I've said this many times and I'll probably say it again in the future, but read "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug.

**PaulW** · 01-12-2012, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by miiseotoolcom

Yes a blog is very important for many reasons, it enables you to add greater depth to your website and use targeted link building but it also enables you to create pages that use more long tail keywords so you can incraese your keyword landscape.

In addition to this it helps you not water down your sales pages and keep your website performing / converting at the highest level.

And the reasons you can't do all of this on website itself are?

**chrishirst** · 01-12-2012, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveCrossland

SEO Search engine optimization, one of the battles across the web. The challenge on how you put your page on top. Optimizing a page is not that easy it requires knowledge and a advance SEO techniques to achieve a better rank.

Wrong, wrong and wrong.

I'll just copy and past my reply to the same point

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

There are no "advanced SEO techniques" other than fanciful theories and ideas from "experts".

It is SO SIMPLE it is unbelievable how so many get it so wrong.

YOU are a search user, YOU are the very people SEs want to show pages to, YOU know exactly what you would like to see in YOUR RESULTS. So why haven't YOU figured out that building a page that YOU WOULD PREFER TO BE SHOWN is the way of getting the pages on your site to be shown to other searchers????

You are fighting a loosing battle when trying to force what you want from the search engines,
Giving the SEs what THEY WANT is far, far easier, and all they want is the best pages for their users.

Now! Why is that so difficult??
Forget chasing rankings!
Forget chasing SGB PR!
Forget "most valuable link"!
Forget "most impotent keyword"! (pun intended)

Target PEOPLE!
Target vistors
Target conversions!

**Searchable** · 01-13-2012, 07:58 PM

Thanks for this information!

**pinnacleweb01** · 01-24-2012, 01:08 AM

This document describes how one can use Apache's mod_rewrite to solve typical Search Engine Optimization (SEO) based problems webmasters are usually confronted with in practice. The Apache module mod_rewrite is a module which provides a powerful way to do url manipulations.Blogs are a great way to keep building fresh content on your site and targeting long-tailed key terms. A possible idea is to bring snippets of blog posts onto related pages for fresh content on these specific pages.

**chrishirst** · 01-24-2012, 10:03 AM

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This document describes ....

What document???

If you are going to copy and paste, try to not miss out the important bits!!

**kangana007** · 01-25-2012, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by mohit80

Should I create a blog for SEO purposes?

See, a blog created solely for SEO purposes is not a blog in its true sense, IMHO. It's just another site, which you will have to promote just like any other site (Chris is right here).

So, such a "blog" would normally have spun content, provide poor user experience, etc. Such blogs are often used in link wheels (black hat stuff!) and other schemes.

However, if you are talking about a BLOG blog, that is, a blog that has unique and useful content, is supposed to attract visitors and steer them to the main site, then, yes, it's very good to have one IN SOME NICHES.

A BLOG blog is a social addendum to your site. And, in my experience, the way you make it popular is also different.
WEBSITES - are basically promoted by means of SEO, SEM (PPC), and some social media.

BLOG blogs - are basically promoted by means of social media, feeds, viral campaigns, and some SEO .

**julie9999** · 01-27-2012, 06:35 AM

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**Atcomaart** · 01-28-2012, 05:42 AM

Yes sure Blog is really very helpful to promote website...