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Blogging for Search Engine Optimization
What is a Blog?
A Blog or WebLog is basically a website to post a persons views, news, chat,
diary or anything that you want others to know about. This Blog, is then
available for anyone to read. You can post or search for blog's through
special websites that host such content, this network of bloggers is commonly
known as the "Blogosphere".
How Do I Start a Blog?
To start blogging you need to find a Blog host, this will create you a
website for your own where you can base you content and keep track of the blogs
you have written. You can either pay for a Blog Host, or there are Host's
available that are free (Although you may get banner adds on your blog site).
When you have registered with your chosen host you can then type your blog, a
common form word input is powered by
WordPress.
Now you have your own blog you can post this blog to other blog search engine
sites for other internet users to find, read and reply to you.
Why Blog?
Blogging is a very sociable form of building a network of friends / readers /
like minded people. The advantage of Blogging for website optimization is
that you can include links to your own website into your Blog. If your
blog is interesting and topical, you could find your blog being posted, and
talked about all over the world in a very short space of time, this will create
traffic to your website.
RSS - Really Simple Syndication
An added advantage to writing a good blog is that people can view your blog
via RSS
 or "Really Simple Syndication", this is a way of subscribing to your
content, so as soon as you publish a new blog, that reader will be able to view
your post without having to visit that blog search site as before, this is done
by using an "Aggregator". An aggregator is a webpage that the user can
chose what information / blogs are displayed, this is commonly set up as a home
page. The advantage of this is that as a blogger, the more people that
subscribe to your blog, the more exposure you and your website will receive.
This exposure will create a buzz where by people will be talking about your blog
and recommending it to others.
Blogging for website Optimization
With such potential for a wide distribution of content (with link to your
site), blogging can be a very good way of creating those all important incoming
links to your website, and thus increasing your page rank and traffic.
Be aware, a blog is only as good as the content it carries. If your
blog isn't interesting or topical no one is likely to view it. Spend time
on creating an interesting article and you will reap the rewards. Blogging
can be fun, sociable, informative but also time consuming. One thing is
for sure, blogging is here to stay and is growing in popularity by the day, so
the potential for helping you to optimize your website is vast.
Blogging website's of interest
BlogFreeze - A free Blog Host, simple to use and effective
http://blogfreeze.co.uk/
Digg - A blog search site, one of the biggest and best
http://digg.com/
Google - If you create a blog then posting it on Google's own blog search engine is
a must http://blogsearch.google.com/
Aggregator - Google's own aggregator
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/07/mygoogle-google-rss-aggregator.html
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