One of the more recent secrets people are using to get their
websites in the search engines, the last couple of years,
is with Blogs. Blogs are short for web logs and are like daily
dairies on the web.
Blogs started out as ways for Internet reality types to share
their lives with other people on the web, without having to
learn very complicated web design applications like Dreamweaver
or Microsoft FrontPage.
Dreamweaver, the standard professional web design program
takes a least 6 months to master. While FrontPage on the other
hand looks a lot like Microsoft Word, and therefore can be
used a bit more quickly by people just starting out.
Blogs are much easier to use than any web design software.
They can be used to change web content from a browser, email,
and even simple desk top software. Blogs are web pages created
with automated software that date stamps all changes to content.
One of the secrets the web marketers use to get their new
websites into the major search engines like (Google - Yahoo!
and MSN) is called blog and ping. So many Internet fortunes
are being built on this simple technique.
If you want your new website to be indexed (or included in
the search engine database) you shouldn't submit it to the
search engines instead you should blog and ping.
There is a new feature with Google and Yahoo! known as sitemaps,
which will also get your site indexed, but most of us will
do fine with learning first to blog and ping.
Blogs index and file your web pages automatically according
to the way you specify in advance.
Google loves blogs and has its own web based application called
Blogger. You can set up a Blogger account for free at Blogger.com.
You should use Blogs for your business to give updates to
your customers and supporters every few days on your company's
news or inside information. You can also reflect on industry
trends with your business blog.
What's nice about blogs if you want to get your site in the
search engines or keep the search engines up to date with
your latest optimization or content efforts. You can post
your new website or page to your blog page and link to that
page.
The search engines will visit the blog page more frequently
and index your new pages or web sites some times in a day
or two. Also make sure when you post a new blog in Blogger.com
you set up your account to ping (or notify) the other major
blog directories that your blog has been updated.
Or if you want to get your new site into Google go to a high
ranked blog listed in Google. If the Blog allows comments
give a good comment on the blog. Then link back to the page
you want indexed in the Blog.
Make sure you give a worth while or useful comment or it will
be considered blog spam by the website administrators. Sometimes
blog publishers disable the comment feature for this reason,
therefore it is important to have your own blogs especially
if you have more than one site.
This will get the Google spider to index your new sites or
web pages within a few days and consider your site for its
database given the criteria of its algorithm.
If you are looking for a fast, inexpensive and efficient way
to build a lot of content on your site, which the search engines
will pick up, go to Blogger and open up a free blogging account
and join the blogosphere.
The Love Affair between the Search Engines, Blogs and RSS
I have been extolling the SEO benefits of Blogs since almost
two years ago. Although blogs and search engines don't seem
to enjoy the free for all love affair they once had, the search
engines and blogs seem to still be married "for better
or for worst".
The romance and infatuation phase between search engines and
blogs has waned because of blog spam. However search engines
dare not divorce blogs because they tend to cook up regularly
updated content.
Blogs are also search engine friendly in design. As publishers
we love blogs because it is an easy way for us to update our
sites with new content.
Many top marketers are extolling about the power of blogs
and their natural extension RSS feeds. Almost every successful
Internet Marketers today is using some variation of blogs
and RSS feeds.
Everywhere you go the web gurus are talking about the great
upside potential of blogs and RSS. RSS for the purpose of
discussing this issue stands for Really Simple Syndication.
RSS is presently being used by Internet marketers to share
their blog headlines with websites and desktops all over the
world. Think of RSS as giving you the ability to blog without
boundaries.
People on other websites and with downloadable RSS newsreader
software can read your newest blog posts without visiting
your site. Sites that value your expertise will in a viral
fashion feature your RSS feeds and help generate traffic to
your site.
This allows you to leverage traffic from other peoples sites
who feature your blog. Moreover, your subscribers who read
your RSS headlines on their desktop software will avoid email
filters.
Before you explore or upgrade to RSS marketing experiment
with desktop newsreaders like Tristana or News Gator. If you
prefer to read RSS from your browser download and install
Mozilla's FireFox Browser.
RSS feeds will be the next phase in Internet marketing following
the search engines, email marketing, affiliate marketing,
and joint ventures.
By having people subscribe to your blog's RSS feeds, or having
them syndicated on other people's websites you will be getting
a running start on the explosion in blog and RSS marketing
once Internet Explorer integrates RSS into its browser.
To learn more about Blogs, RSS, and Search Engines visit
Kamau Austin's Search Engine Blog at... http://www.searchengineplan.com
