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| Posted: 06 Nov 2007 00:42 |
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When doing those first few pages of a website, wouldn't it be wise to begin with a blog and then add non-blog pages?
I ask because it seems the text would catch the "eyes" of search engines sooner than several pages of goods or service oriented things.
Does this make sense?
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| Posted: 09 Nov 2007 15:55 Last Edited By: annerz |
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i'm not sure if we're speaking the same language here, but here's my case:
my new domain names did not have any alexa ranking (though they were previously parked on SEDO, and had quite a good traffic), for a couple of weeks...
until i've decided to make use of them, and install one wordpress blog for each.
whoalah! after a day or two, they gained some alexa ranking, even though the blog themselves did not have any content as of yet.
but here, i guess the credit goes out to wordpress' platform 
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| Posted: 10 Nov 2007 22:28 |
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That's good to know! I thought that, since the blog is all text, you could get a good foothold and then build out with other pages. Sounds like your just loading the template made a huge difference!
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| Posted: 11 Nov 2007 05:41 Last Edited By: annerz |
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^ ah, i see. well, i think wordpress is very good from a SEO point of view.
there are also some very good plugins for wordpress
which make your blog even more search engine friendly
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| Posted: 19 Nov 2007 19:46 |
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Right now I have a Wordpress blog but it's still at Wordpress and not self hosted. it's traffic is picking up though, so I might leave it as it is and self host another Wordpress blog on the actual website.
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| Posted: 10 Feb 2008 03:44 |
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I use blogger and recently started off with my own website, traffic is picking up a bit but still needs some good amount of work to be done to improve the site overall.
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| Posted: 11 Feb 2008 03:25 |
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I have a client that I am writing content articles for. He has another site that is parked and waiting for a designer. I suggested he load a Wordpress blog where his place holding page is to get a few things going.
I hope he follows the suggestion as it would get things clicking before he gets the rest of the site up. Of course, he could simply use the Wordpress template for the whole site, and save money by not using a designer.
I can't wait to see what happens!
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| Posted: 18 Feb 2008 03:04 |
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A Wordpress page is a valuable placeholder, and is pretty accessible. However, I hate to move content around too much for SEO reasons, keep the URLs the same as you add content.
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| Posted: 04 Mar 2008 22:00 |
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The internet is gone blog crazy these days. It's never a bad idea to include a blog, especially since the content on the pages as a result of that changes very often rather than having the same static information on your site as a constant. That can't be bad for SEO.
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| Posted: 06 Mar 2008 05:38 |
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I agree, a blog is good to have connected to your site. The only bad thing is that you have to have the time to administer that blog. Otherwise, the blog will definitely go wild without you.
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| Posted: 06 Mar 2008 15:48 |
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Well that's also an important point, you really need to have the time for a blog. There's no point having the front page of your website as a blog and only posting on it once a week, then it's just static and boring. Blogs are only good if they're resonably active.
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| Posted: 09 Mar 2008 15:08 |
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Blogs are definitely very important in a site not only for rich content keywords and being search engine friendly but also for the entertainment of the surfers who come back for the site. They must be regularly updated also.
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| Posted: 10 Mar 2008 04:10 |
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The only bad thing about a blog is when you get the spammers or the users who can't stay on topic. That makes for a lot of work keep things going. But, very thing else is going good it is a good thing to have.
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| Posted: 16 Mar 2008 17:00 |
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Unfortunatly you can't beat the spammer problem, this can happen when you include: A guestbook, chatroom, forum, blog. Of course one way to fix this problem is to disable comments, however people like to comment so that may hurt the traffic.
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| Posted: 18 Mar 2008 22:37 |
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Spamming is really growing worse over the internet. I have checked out many forums where we get to find good stuff to share with others but spammers make the place worse to stay, administration should throughly monitor their sites everyday.
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| Posted: 19 Mar 2008 19:23 |
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It requires a lot of work though, spammers tend to find ways around any measures you put in place and sometimes it can be almost a full time job. I find ways to confuse them works, I run a World of Warcraft forum and we had a lot of spammers registered. I created custom profile fields so people have to enter their character name, class, level and realm when registering. The BOTS didn't know what to put in these fields and they've not registered since.
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| Posted: 20 Mar 2008 20:57 |
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That's a great idea for World of Warcraft for forum. But many forms can't use that idea. I do know that some forums require a verifiable e-mail address. Then it actually verifies the e-mail address by requiring a reply by the person to complete registration. This may help with spammers.
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| Posted: 23 Mar 2008 14:39 |
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We require that You'll find they just register a new e-mail account. I was only using my forum as an example if you run an arts and crafts forum you could ask questions about art it can work for any kind of forum. Anything they don't know how to answer or approach will work pretty well.
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| Posted: 23 Mar 2008 21:12 |
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Well, I guess it just depends on what the form is about as to what questions would have to ask. If you have a general forum than you might run into some problems.
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| Posted: 25 Mar 2008 10:57 |
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I think that the blog could get a page rank faster than any websites because it tends to have fresher ads. It is better to start with a blog and when your blog got a page rank then that is the time to have a website. You could have your site in your blog to help it with having a page rank.
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| Posted: 25 Mar 2008 23:10 |
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I think that would only really work if you had a blog that was about something people are interested. Because if people aren't interested they are not going to come to your blog.
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| Posted: 26 Mar 2008 03:44 |
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Getting the right traffic is more difficult issue and it really requires to have good content in the blog to get people to your blog.
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| Posted: 18 Apr 2008 00:06 Last Edited By: mom2manyboyz |
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Have you considered just moderating your blog comments to prevent the spam from being posted? No need to completely disable the comments, just moderate them.
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| Posted: 18 Apr 2008 01:10 |
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There are a few things to take into consideration when designing your own website, it is important to remember that creativity is important. Not everyone likes to read lot's of information and by creating a blog first website you are in danger of frightening off prospective customers' who are technophobe's.
From a SEO point of view a blog site would work very well because it would boost your page ranking. However, you would need to ensure the information is correct and up to date. It is very easy with blog's to forget all about them after a few weeks, espescially if you are not easily disciplined. It would be far better to hire a professional blog writer to ensure the blog is up to date and interesting. Blog writer's are plentiful and not that expensive.
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| Posted: 19 Apr 2008 03:06 |
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With Wordpress you can set up plugins to help keep the spammers at bay. They have Akismet built in now and it's only a matter of activating it in your Dashboard control panel. It'll check every comment and hold back suspected spam ones for you to approve or disapprove. Some it filters out completely before they even get as far as your screen.
Each time you mark a comment as being spam or not that it's holding in its moderation queue for you, Akismet learns from that apparently which helps the program make better decisions in the future. Every comment it looks at, it checks against its database to decide if it's likely to be spam.
I think it's a great program and unbelievable that it's free. You needn't give up on allowing guest posting completely nor moderate every single comment because Akismet takes good care of a large chunk of that for you. I wouldn't have a Wordpress blog without it.
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