Blogs and RSS Boost Your Online Business, Rankings, Traffic

[weberg69]

Blogs for Advertising?

Yes! Blogs and RSS boost your online business, rankings, traffic and sales. We all sometimes ignore the trends in advertising on the internet until the masses are allready doing it. That is why I felt compelled to right this article and hopefully help others to understand that Blogs are a very powerful advertising method and you do not want to ignore this trend, You will regret it!

A blog is a frequent, online publication of comments, web links and news. It is an online Enzine of sorts. People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with automated published systems, most notably is blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger alone.

I only realized myself how powerful Blog advertising was, after I submitted an article to one Blog, yes just one Blog. What happened next amazed me! Within one week my new site wich I used in my byline in the Blog was not only indexed, but every single page was indexed and I had over 200 other sites pointing links to my site! All from one Blog posting. See websites need content and Blogs are a great source for content, and search engines LOVE blogs! I really need to say that again, search engines love Blogs!
Want your site indexed? Want hundreds maybe even thousands of incoming links all pointing to your site?

Here are the reasons you should not ignore Blog advertising. Remember when all search engines were free, and simply submitting your web sites got you listed quickly? Gone. Then it wa FFA pages, they brought in a ton of free traffic, built links to your site, and added to your mailing list like crazy. Tried one lately? Safelists were an online goldmine for a while... until bottom less email accounts were introduced.

Every new technology does what you need, at first. Then slowly more and more learn the secrets, and by the time the herd has caught on it's too late. Technologies have changed, everything has slowed way down, or the search engines have decided that it's become another form of spamming the search engines and stop weighing it so heavily. Sometimes they even ban the technology from their databases, remember doorway pages and multiple sites?

So where is blogging along this curve today? The early adopters have been doing it for the last couple of years, and the leading internet marketers started coming into it over the last year, many are still just getting started with it. So you're at the perfect time, most of the expensive development time is done, the bulk of the bugs are out of the whole RSS and Atom feed systems, and engines like Yahoo, MSN and Google are embracing the technology and waiting to greet your Blog with open arms. So dont ignore this whole Blogging idea, embrace it you just might see your sales soar through the roof!

Richard Weberg
Internet Marketer and Motivational Speaker

[MtraX]

I've been saying this all along! The question is just sometimes, does the SE's see your syndicated content (to other sites) as duplicated content? Or does it give you a free pass if it knows that you've got a feed running from your site? The backlink capabilities are insane if you're writing popular content that everyone wants to use...

MtraX

[CareyParker]

I just read your post and I'm not sure that a blog site is the way to go. I just started a blog site with Type Pad about four months ago and now my regular web site that I have had for over three years on Google which has enjoyed high ranking has mysteriously disappeared. The blog site and the main web site which I had linked together and cross-promoted, now are absent from the Google search engine results, and my web site business is completely destroyed. I only put links on the two sites to promote each other's sites, so there was no duplicate content. It was a "blog site" for the other site and had different features, however, could this have been considered a "mirror site" by Google?

Any suggestions on how I can recover from this? It's interesting that my blog site has also disappeared from search engine results because it was in the #1 rankings for "palm springs real estate blog" and now it doesn't even exist. http://deserthomestoday.blogs.com/ and my main web site www.deserthomestoday.com has been Google dropped as well.

I also chose "TYPE PAD" because as I understood that Google was "search engine friendly" with Type Pad, doesn't seem so now....

Has anyone had any luck getting their site reincluded in the Google search engine data base?

I'm pretty discouraged without having any answers...

[MtraX]

Hi

It might be that Google sited you for purposely creating the blog solely to promote your website. I don't have all the facts though, so I'm not 100% sure that this is the case. I haven't seen other websites penalised like this before for creating a blog. Weberg69, maybe you have some comments?

MtraX

[LarryP]

Hi Carey,

I've been cross promoting for some time between my websites and blogs and both seem to have benefited.

The website indexed on google moves up evey 15 days or so for most of the keywords and the other SE's have been extremely responsive.

The great benefit I've experienced doing this is with all the other SE's. The top 9 (excluding google - to make 10) have been moving up consistently for both the blog and websites (I do two url's this way).

Although google seems to be #1 for now in the SE world, the other top 9 SE's are as important, at least to me.

You may just be experiencing googles "sandbox" and your url's should pop back up soon.

[wrmineo]

Originally Posted by LarryP

... Although google seems to be #1 for now in the SE world, the other top 9 SE's are as important, at least to me ...

Sing it loud Larry!

Yes, G is number one, but they're not the end-all, and they're not #1 but much honestly.

They enjoy, I think, about a 33% market share, but when you take #2 and #3 combined, they smoke the Big G in market share and reach.

Furthermore, don't put your eggs all in one basket is a good starting point to force yourself to diversify your strategies.

Secondly, I also think it depends on the market demographic you're trying to capture. Yahoo and MSN enjoy a younger audience and these kids are surfing and spending big time online, leaps and bounds more than we 35+ crowd. AOL is also big, but they're fed solely by Google as far as I can tell ...

Anyway, I liked your comment; very true, IMO!!

Regards,
w®m

[LarryP]

Sorry,

I almost forgot...

I've used typepad and many other blog systems
and have found that keyword entry for the blog
is very important PLUS the blog name, as you
probably already know. B2Evolution does this better
than the rest I've tried, including typepad.

But if not...

I have the very best results from B2Evolution
simply because of the way the template and
keywords is set up for the evolution index.

For some reason yahoo! likes B2Evolution better
than the rest, as do most of the top 10 SE's
(except Google hasn't joined the blog bandwagon
yet).

One of my blogs ranks first page on at least
5 of the top 10 for its top keywords and even
shows up in the top PPC's.

Perhaps one of the reasons is that I use RSS
for everything I do, but I think the main
reason is B2Evolution.

If you aren't too far into your blog you might
check it out, or set up a test blog to find out
for yourself.

[LarryP]

Hello Richard,

I can't believe I missed your post!

I've been singing the same song for more than a
year and just this year decided to do everything
possible to get the word out about RSS to the "little
guy".

Go to Google search and type in "rss email autoresponder"
and you will find the first 10 indexed pages
refer to two of my rss sites. Everything
with RSS eMail Autoresponder / RSS Publishing,
RSS eMail.net or RSS Publishing News shown is
mine. (42 of the first 90 indexed pages are my
posts on RSS Autoresponders)

The old saying "you can lead a horse to water but you
can't make it..." is so true with RSS.

It is amazing how many wanna be super marketers are
letting this opportunity go by.

Already RSS in the UK and Australia is overtaking the
U.S. Can't believe we're being left behind.

Keep up the good work and if I can do anything to
help get the word out let me know.