Blog or no blog?

[a-okadmin]

Hi All,

I know I've seen posts on this before but I am now looking at other ways to get more traffic to my site. Does having a blog help in this respect? What are the other advantages? What is your own experience?

[websage]

Hi

Hi, we'd say a big 'yes' to blogging.

Whether you have an onsite blog, or offsite blog, they are useful for traffic building (sadly we have had numerous problems over the summer due to moving home, and no regular Internet link, so my blogging has had to be on hold, but you can see them here: The 'Mañana' Syndrome - Visiting the Dominican Republic blog (http://www.visiting-the-dominican-republic.blogspot.com); and Net Profit - an online business blog (http://www.net-profit.blogspot.blog.com)) but the big advantage of blogging is that is gives you 2 bites of the cherry..

It seemed to us that some of the major SE's have been keen to promote blogging so they can also get listed in results quite quickly (IF you put some real content on your blog). WE now have some good SE ranks for the blog, which then leads folks to our site...and we have some better ranks for the blog in areas where our site is still getting esablished.

One way to help your blog get going is to post a blog. then pick it up and add it to your 'my Yhaoo', and 'My MSN', accounts...this way when the 'spiders' are out they tend to 'see' it quicker. (If you don't have such accounts they are of course simple to set up)

Naturally if your blog is another doorway to your site..so we have used our stats abanalysis and can see that our site has benefitted from having this blog. IT has also been that case that pinging the blog each time an entry has been addes has helped to grow it too.

Our all-in-one hosting solution (http://sitebuildit.sitesell.com/build-better-sites.html) now provides an onsite RSS too that means whenever we update content it is automatically pinged..and alerts regular visitors to any changes...brilliant.

So for us a big thumbs uop for blogging (even if it does means more minutes slogging over ahot keyboard :D )

R

[kyber]

Content is king with the search enginees and regular change to content is best of all. A blog is a good way of assisting you to sustain change. It does not have to look like a blog of course.

There are many open source content management and blog solutions around.

A good example is http://www.textpattern.com/ - you need php and mysql to run this on your own site.

Stuart

[Top Hat]

We get good traffic on our blog, for reasons above.

here's a good read
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html

[a-okadmin]

Many thanks for your comments.

I decided to add a blog page as a sub-domain and have uploaded one page giving updates on my business and some more personal stuff. Is this the normal kind of stuff to put in a blog? If you have time, you can see it at www.blogspot.a-okadmin.co.uk

Thanks.

[bitsnstuff]

Hi Claire,

Your site link doesn't seem to work for me.

Kate :lol:

[a-okadmin]

Thanks for letting me know. It was working fine last night when I uploaded my page.

I'll check it out.

[a-okadmin]

Silly me, the link should read http://blogspot.a-okadmin.co.uk

Please let me know if you still have any problems with it.

Thanks.