Nipplecharms, CZ,
thanks for the comments.
Reasons why blogs may be doing so well:
1. Yes, they're with Blogger (owned by Google).
2. However, they both do extremely well on both MSN and Yahoo. For example:
2A.UK Search is ranked No.1 on MSN for the term "UK Search".See:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q...NH&srch_type=0
2B. Travel Thinking is ranked No.1 on MSN for the term "UK Travel Developments". See:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q...nts+&FORM=QBRE
2C. There are literally dozens of other terms where these blogs appear ranked 1-5 in the SERPs.
2D. And I am definitely
not optimising to achieve these results.
2E. What's disconcerting, is that the blogs often beat client sites in the SERPs for keywords and expressions I'm optimising the client sites for!!
3. The blogs are crawled very frequently.
4. I tend to update with short snappy content.
5. There may be a bias towards blogs built into Google, Yahoo and MSN.
6. The sites are reasonably well linked. Essentially Blogspot creates its own internal linking. But I'm conscientious when it comes to the external linking as well.
Any other thoughts as to why blogs are doing so well?[/b]