Well you all know that we started the free blog platform @ MyTypes.com to not only help people learn how to blog, but to help them SEO adding content through blogging regulary. We often read SearchEngineLand.com, along with many other great SEO resources such as iMediaConnection and the blog of SEOBook.com. We are always impressed by the age old strategy of teaching business people how to blog so that they can SEO their business and easily get top rankings on Google and MSN Live Search. As we write in our marketing book, we teach people how to blog with the proper keywords. Because if you learn the simple techniques of blogging and linking with proper anchor texts, you will be able to SEO as well as 90% of the top SEO’s. So do rush to go buy our marketing book, ok click to go our Marketing book at Amazon.com.
Here is the article from SearchEngineGuide.com a siste site of Search Engine Land on Blogging, enjoy. Please do visit their site for the full article.
Blogging Workshop - SBM Unleashed
September 23, 2008 Comments
David Wallace
Mack Collier of The Viral Garden did an excellent presentation yesterday on why businesses should blog. With some background on why blogging matters and how companies are using blogs to spark conversation, this workshop is designed to provide everything you need to know to build a successful blog from selecting your blog software to planning your blog strategy.
In this workshop, Mack is going to take us through several tools and resources designed to help blogging. He starts off with Google Blog Search and shows attendees how you can use the service to monitor terms related to your business and/or blog. He also mentions that you can use RSS readers such as Bloglines to monitor buzz related to your blog.
Next Mack talks about Twitter Search for monitoring items that are being discussed on Twitter. Could be an even such as this conference, a person, a company, a product or a number of things.
Next, Mack talks about the various blogging platforms. He mentions Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type and Wordpress. Most have free versions while they all offer some sort of paid elements/versions as well. There are opportunities to have your blog hosted or to simply download the software and install on your own server. I strongly suggest the latter so that you can have complete control over your blog.
I use Movable Type for my SearchRank blog while I use Wordpress for all the other blogs I run. The differences between the two are many but mostly the fact that Movable Type published actual html pages while Wordpress is all database driven. That’s why its crucial when running Wordpress to make sure you back up regularly, whether you do that manually on a schedule or use a plug-in that automatically does it for you.
On thing Mack points out as far as the content you publish on your blog is that it is okay to talk about your own products and/or services but to do so with moderation. If all you ever write about is your own wares, your blog is not going to be very interesting and as such not attract many readers.
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