Blog Options,Seo, help and discuss.

[chuk]

Hi guys,

For those who are not fimilar with me, Im a builder, i have a nice clean website with a blog (working progress) . I have fair organic results.

atj-builders.co.uk

We are just starting a victorian workshop to town house conversion which i am going to blog in detail from planning, building regs, construction etc etc

I could have Seperate blog on my own site, offering reciprecating links to those bussiness/contractors i use or feature. Nice rich content etc etc

OR is there an better alternative which would benifit me as regards SEO? if so discuss methods articles.

Thanks
Terry

 

[MASSEY]

I'm going to do the same later this year, I will be blogging about a full property renovation,

from the forum I gather a blog on your own site is best, you can internally link to pages on your own site and link out,

having a blog on your own site gets it crawled more often also

 

[simonr]

You need to find/talk to/ask Nikki Pilkington.

S

 

[fisicx]

Almost zero SEO value as it's very niche but you can create a lot of goodwill. Just set a special category for the project and post away. Adding links is good as long as they flow into the copy.

What will help is lots of images of the project. I personally would do this as a blog, I'd have a separate project page(s) and ensure it has a link from the site homepage.

 

[craigc0302]

Almost zero SEO value as it's very niche but you can create a lot of goodwill. Just set a special category for the project and post away. Adding links is good as long as they flow into the copy.

What will help is lots of images of the project. I personally would do this as a blog, I'd have a separate project page(s) and ensure it has a link from the site homepage.

Let me begin by saying you should never blog just for the search engines. What I mean is, if you're going to start a blog, you should do for business and communication reasons, not for SEO reasons.
With that said ... yes, blogs do help with search engine visibility! A blog, or web log, is an online journal you can post content to quickly and easily.
While blogs used to be primarily kept by individuals (as online diaries), they have come into their own as business and marketing tools.
Basically, a blog is a website with content arranged in chronological order. Once set up, a blog is easy to publish as you don't need any HTML / web coding skills. Blogs have a fill-in-the-blank interface where you enter your content. Then you click a "Publish" button and presto, your new content is automatically converted into HTML code and published to a viewable page - in a matter of seconds.
Here's where search engine optimization comes into play. By default, blogs do many things well that can help them earn search engine ranking. In many cases, blogs can achieve solid ranking faster than regular websites. A blog is easier to publish than a regular website, so you can post content to it more often. Search engines like websites with frequently updated content.
Hope that helps..

 

[real001]

Article submission are good for the promotion of your site since you have nice blogs use that advantage of it to get visitors.

 

[janeycotley]

Blogging is common for blogs to feature advertisements either to financially benefit the blogger or to promote the blogger's favorite causes.But both of them are effective to drive website traffic.