Having a blog on your website

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is this good a good way to go? I guess the reason is simply fresh content to your website?

Would the blog still be ranked under certain KW so the blog page will show up under those in google?

Would you try and promote the blog the same way as an independent one and would you still point articles to your blog page??? I guess it makes more sense to point the articles straight to you home sales page on website?

Any tips or info about intregrating a blog on to your website will be appreciated.

thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author aidanjb1
    Blogs are great to have on your website - specifically for putting fresh content up easily. I dont usually promote the blog the same way I promote the site however. For blog posts target less competitive keywords for best results.
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  • Profile picture of the author Will P
    I would have to agree, a blog can be good for your website. Personally I like to add cross links in my personal blogs however I prefer doing blog posts more cause they seem to benefit my serps more. (doesn't get you the best traffic but it does help your serps which will get traffic)
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  • Profile picture of the author bonafide70
    Depends on your strategy, I'd say definately have an intergrated blog if you want to build authority - likewise an external blog with some links to your main site helps your serps..
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  • Profile picture of the author patlondon
    I was scared to add a blog to one of my big content sites but finally bit the bullet a few months ago. It was easier than I figured it would be and now I can put up a new blog in under 5 minutes flat. lol.

    Actually it was a good decision for a couple reasons. I created short posts about my main articles and linked to those articles from the blog..have it all arranged by category to match the main site.

    When you publish content your "ping list"...will get notified to come and check out all of the new stuff here. Very much quicker in getting your new stuff found by the search engines.

    PLUS you can now submit your rss feed (which is built as you add new content).. to sites very much like article directories..they help syndicate your content, people pick it up and may even use that feed of yours on their site. More traffic!

    And adding it..say to a directory /blog/ for example can be pretty fast too.

    If you're not sure...get your webhosting company on the phone and they will help you go through the process.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tizzy Dupont
    Blogs are invaluable. They provide links to your sales pages, which helps their rankings, but more importantly they grab a ton of traffic. You can set things up so that every time you post, search engines are automatically notified. People can subscribe to rss feeds for your site. And you can add buttons for social bookmarking.

    I use wordpress, which is exceedingly easy to set up. In wordpress, you can add plugins (very straightforward) that will optimize your blog for search engine rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author new2ebiz
    With several of my new sites I've used blogs to get the site indexed faster at no additional costs.
    As others have said, you can also use the blog as a kind of announcement service, with the longer content pieces published on the site pages.
    Lots of ways exist to use blogs and sites together, but think it through. It is not always the best fit, depending on what you want to accomplish with the site.
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  • Profile picture of the author HomeBizNizz
    Post your news on the blog
    and the more timeless info somewhere else.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clayton Jolin
    Having a blog on website is one of the Product Launch Strategies on my list.

    If you don't have a blog, chances are you won't get much organic traffic unless your site is content based ofcourse.

    Regards.
    CJ
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  • Profile picture of the author rlrlphs
    Yes, it is very nice to have a blog on your website. Because we can see that there are series of people who are interested in blogging. And it can boost your Google Performance.
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  • Profile picture of the author engr.adeel
    Blog is very useful but the keyword for the blog should be very unique or less competitive for the good results. The site is indexed faster with the help of blog with out any cost.
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