bloggers ... new to blogging ... what app to use for SEO reasons?

hello bloggers,

i've decided i get into this now ... i have wordpress and several other apps built into my control panel.

is there any benefit to using these or some web based service? specifically for getting google love.

i'd like to a have a subdomain for the blog, but also snag headlines and quick paragraphs for the main home page of my site.

ideas are welcomed and appreciated!

new to blogging, but seasoned to seo and programming.

thanks!

 

Word press has the static looking links for all the posts.

I like it.

 

If you desire to receive Google love I suggest you mimic Google's own Blog. I did and my Blog’s are shooting to the top.

1) H1 tag for every heading

2) 12pt Aril type

3) Permanent link of each Blog entry

4) Time and date stamp

5) Credit for writer

6) Blog set left side and Archive navigation to the right

 

insteresting, should I just use their service? i do want to include my blogs on my home page though (my home page won't be the blogger home page)

 

I like wordpress.. the permalink structure through htaccess works very well for me SEO wise.

Its also great all around software.

Josh

 

Either Wordpress or Moveable Type. I like them both. Wordpress is free, but so is Movable Type for a personal license. (gets to be paid for things like unlimited authors and commercial blogs).

If you are going to be running a dynamic blog with mod-rewrite, wordpress seems to function better. My moveable type blog is actual static links - and it generates the files for me. The MT php engine seems to be a little problematic.

MoveableType's MTBlacklist plugin is crazy good at killing spam comments. Wordpress' functionality is pretty good too, you just have to add a few poker keywords to their list and you'll be fine.

 

my domain blog had 20 visits from the g00glebot yesterday and it's only PR4. U think I would get the same number of visits if my blog was made with a WordPress or Movable Type?

AmCy

 

googlebot activity has nothing to do with high serps.(i ashould say on it's own ... it's a characteristic of a well ranking site though)

ask anyone with a aws. the bot practically takes your site down ... often. but that doesn't mean you will score highly.

 

I just secured a solid domain name in mycityseo.com. Signed up for some cheap web hosting and installed WordPress. Hence, my blog was born. I'm looking to do the same thing, so this thread is helpful. I just wrote my first "blog". Anyone out there using blogs to secure SERP's for local SEO? I'd like to rise in the rankings for my city & SEO. I figure the domain and a good blog will be a good start.

I'm still figuring out the structure of WordPress. I use Mambo for my main site - which is a portal more than a blog. I'd be interested to see how you are linking internally/externally to maximize your search results.

I figure that I'll place a link on my PR4 site to get a Google visit --- any suggestions on when I should do this? How many articles do I need to make it a "legit" site. I also plan on adding Adsense. Same question, at what point should I sign up?

TIA
Chris

 

The question here is not how frequently your blog has been crawled, but how well it actually performs...

I have a blogger blog that gets maybe 2 or 3 GB crawls a week... The engine doesn't matter.