Sunday, February 22, 2009

How can blogs help with SEO?

Ok so how do blogs help to promote a website? Well apart from the obvious which is that you are reading this blog and may decided to go and view my website there are other advantages to blogs.
Blogs give you the oppotunity to point links back to your own website, with the advantage that you control the content that surounds the link. Meaning you write good content that relates well to the key term that you are looking to promote. Example:

My kitchen is fitted with all the necessary accessories for the basic chef I have a just installed a ......(key term)

So you can see that the link is within the context of the writing, the content is kitchen related. Obviously you would be writing more content than I have in my example but hopefully you get the point. You are able to write good content about the product, service you are looking to promote.

Blogs should be regularly updated, the more you update your blog the more likely people will subscribe to your blog and read them and link to them. The golden rule with blogs is to try and avoid advertising your services, products in an traditional advertising way. You are looking to engage your readers and make the content imformative, give free advice and always respond quickly to comments made on your blogs. If others start to subscribe to your blog this will help to build backlinks to your blog and so others will start to see your blog.

Can blogs help with search engine traffic? Well if you are pointing links back to your website and in turn others are linking to your blog then this all helps to gain better positions on search engines.

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