Getting The Full SEO Benefits From A Blog
WordPress is one of the top SEO enhanced blogs that you can select to use. It is a world leader. It is simple and easy to use, looks good and above all is 90% Search Engine Optimisation ready out of the box.
This is part of a series of tip articles just about using WordPress for leveraging on Search Engine Optimisation.
Tip: Make sure the blog is on YOUR site
We are often asked
If you are doing blogging for Search Engine Optimization purposes compared to obtaining traffic purposes, then you can ONLY locate your blog in one place and one place only – On your site!
Do not even think about using a sub-web such as http://www.blog.mygreatsite.com. Why would you use a sub web anyhow unless if you want a cool blog URL.
Sub webs are part of your site but they are unclear from an SEO perspective. If you want to have the blog content 100% linked up with your website then make sure it is off a sub folder and NOT a sub web for example : http://www.myhappysite.com/blog.
Sub webs will not gain you the identical SEO ranking across all search engines because many search engines treat sub webs as a distinctly different website.
If your blog is presently hosted on blogger.com or wordpress.com then you should think about to move it as soon as manageable if you want to enhance your SEO position.
One fundamental matter to watch out for if you move a large blog to your site (with lots of content), that if you are currently ranking for a number of keywords, then your ranking can be gravely affected after you have added your blog content.
We have experienced client ranking drop after adding a lot of new content in the form of a blog to a clients sites. Adding a blast of new content ‘dilutes’ your current site content if the new content is NOT Search Engine Optimisation optimized for the keywords that you want to rank for. SEO Optimize the content before making it live to avoid this dilution process. Taking the time to do this BEFORE you add it to your site will make a big difference to your immediate ranking position.
