Seo Guru

Why Start A Blog?

Well, why would I want a blog? After all, blogs are just for geeks, self prejudiced left or right division zealots pushing some difficult to understand political agenda, teenage school kids gobbledygook on about their zits and boyfriends or technological journals full of terms and terminology only a rocket scientist could know. And I never bothered with blogs or the development of the “blogosphere” again.

Then something changed the way I sight blogging about July 2005. I was introduced to using a blog as a tool for SEO - Search Engine Optimization. In the crudest form it was approximately spamming, but done properly, it will get your website pages spidered almost immediately and indexed in less than a week.

Blog and Ping

The crude method involved first setting up both a blogger (.blogspot) blog and a free myYahoo page. You add the RSS or Atom link from your blog to your myYahoo page, so that your blog feeds into your myYahoo website.

You then write a page into your blog with links to WebPages that you want Google and Yahoo to find and index. After posting your new blog entry, you then ping your myYahoo page to tell it that there’s a new entry at your blog. Then you go to Yahoo, unbolt your myYahoo page, and the blog headline should be there.

The report is that Yahoo would spider all feeds going into it’s myYahoo pages and because Google owns Blogger.com they would spider all new blog way in at Blogger.com … and in fact this is really what occurs. Start a blog, add entry’s to it every day, and in less than a week it will be spidery as soon about as you post to it. But you must post each day.