Comments on: Are blogs SEO friendly by Nature?

By: Trastlink

Trastlink — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:20:20 +0000

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By: papi

papi — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:23:48 +0000

Well, google used to like blogs a lot because of the aforementioned reasons and not only. But it seems that little by little has become more suspicious because of spammers etc.

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Houston search engine optimization — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:56:32 +0000

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By: papi

papi — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:44:35 +0000

Roy, firstly, fresh content not only increases the crawl rate, but, as far as I know, it helps get a better PR as well. On the other hand, I agree with Al. Additionally, if keyword density at the home page is your problem, you can decrease the number of visible posts in the home page or even configure your blog to display specific posts and not all the posts that write.

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heartburn foods — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:43:10 +0000

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By: Al

Al — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:13:02 +0000

Unless I’m missing something, I don’t see the relationship between frequent updates and the inability to keep keyword focused.

If you have a personal site that covers everything from flowers through the politics, then the keyword theme for a site is going to be all over the place and the opposite is also true – if you’ve got a site only about marketing – then you’ll have a good chance of maintaining solid keyword focus.

How often you update a single page or add new pages to a site has little to do with keyword groups and everything to do with the content that the author chooses to put into each of those pages.

By: Debt

Debt — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:05:55 +0000

Hendry Lee,

Sorry, I exaggerated a bit. It’s not that they don’t like blogs, they just don’t like a few things that are common to blogs, like comment spam, duplicate content, or useless content.

Getting a blog to rank is hard because there are so many blogs out there so it’s now competitive.

It’s not so much that google doesn’t like blogs, as much as there are so many blogs that it’s tough to get attention (even tougher now that the established high PR blogs all use nofollow).

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:49:39 +0000

I don’t know where you get that idea, Debt, but Google and Yahoo crawl my site every few hours. That can only mean the spiders like my blog.

To answer your question, Roy. Search engines like frequently updated blog because it is a sign that the owner is maintaining the blog and it is presumed to be up to date. That is certainly a factor, although they can’t be sure the content is up to date.

Regarding keyword density, it is now obsolete. Do your best to optimize the on-page factors. A keyword optimized title helps.

You also need to keep your site structure and linkage with proper linking. In SEO term, this is siloing.

Backlinks are another thing you should be focus on to give the spiders hints about the topic of your blog pages.

Hope that clears the issue a bit.

By: Debt

Debt — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:27:16 +0000

I disagree. Google doesn’t like blogs at all. They consider it mostly useless information that is mostly not what people are searching for. They introduced nofollow tags specifically because of comment spam on blogs (rathar than try to find a better solution).

It’s so bad now that if you launch a new blog chances are it will take you longer than a non blog site to be included in google’s index (unless you have some really juicy content).

I agree about blogs being updated more frequently than other pages though. I think google shys away from forums as well nowadays.