iontostar Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Hello folks, First post and first question. From doing some general reading on SEO it appears that blogging is currently the in thing for driving extra traffic to your website. So I have three simple(?) questions: (1) Does anyone use blogging to help promote their site. Does it make it worthwhile to do in regard to the time and effort needed to run an informative and active blog which would appeal to SE. I was thinking on writing about the website and how to use the items beng sold (and give direct link to them), recommendations of products for the current month. (The website is garden related) (2) Now this is probably a daft question but where do you run the blog? On your own website or do you register with an established blogging site which is being indexed by search engines. If it is the former then which blogging software is recommended and if it is the latter which blogging sites are recommended? (3)If blogging is the way forward any pitfalls I should watch out for? All opinions(within reason:-) welcome. Regards Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 If it's a nice blog and someone stumbles across it, you may get additional potential customers but that is beyond the scope of your question. As far as SEO is concerned, all having a blog will do is provide a link to your site, which will help a little with your PR. If that is the only reason you are doing it, it probably isn't worth the time and effort. The blog needs to be different from your website. If its contents are just a duplicate of your website, the SE's can figure that out and ignore it. The blog needs to be on a different server for the best benefit. That's not difficult to do since there are so many free blog hosts out there. Plus it will take the load off of your server, saving you bandwidth. HTH, Jack Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I agree with Jack... When I originally started my blog (which is on the Google owner Blogspot) it was purely for another PR boost. However, over time it has actually become a blog of all my quick thoughts and other ramblings...just like a real blog :) I have not received any warm, live bodies from my blog but get at least 20-30 spiders daily from it. As a side note, my blog is a PR5 :) Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥bruyndoncx Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Yes, I think a blog is a good idea, though you need to ensure that your actual website ranks higher than your blog imo. I personally don't like it that when potential customers put in the name of your shop, they'd arrive first at the blog and then only at the actual website (surfing the blog doesn't generate revenue, the shop might ...) I noticed last week that our PR went up to 5 (for the main page), while the blog hosted at oscommerce is PR2. For the other pages it's mostly PR0/1/2 it appears. KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON I do not use the responsive bootstrap version since i coded my responsive version earlier, but i have bought every 28d of code package to support burts effort and keep this forum alive (albeit more like on life support). So if you are still here ? What are you waiting for ?! Find the most frequent unique errors to fix: grep "PHP" php_error_log.txt | sed "s/^.* PHP/PHP/g" |grep "line" |sort | uniq -c | sort -r > counterrors.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iontostar Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Ok, Thanks for the replies. Will have a look into setting up one and see what kind of effect it has. Will see what the various bloging hosts have to offer. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonsensation Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 If it's a nice blog and someone stumbles across it, you may get additional potential customers but that is beyond the scope of your question. As far as SEO is concerned, all having a blog will do is provide a link to your site, which will help a little with your PR. If that is the only reason you are doing it, it probably isn't worth the time and effort. The blog needs to be different from your website. If its contents are just a duplicate of your website, the SE's can figure that out and ignore it. The blog needs to be on a different server for the best benefit. That's not difficult to do since there are so many free blog hosts out there. Plus it will take the load off of your server, saving you bandwidth. HTH, Jack <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ari Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Allow me to add my blog here with those who care about SEO issues. I am trying to gather some support, help and feedback for the ?SEO Popularity Engine? at this topic: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=139239 This could be a site-life changing event... so please read and make your comments. Some of you volunteered to help; I am going to put some money? you just have to tell us if you can use this contribution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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