Do You Need a Blog for SEO?

13 years ago

I would think WPRobot would work, just don't post something every other hour, every 2-3 days would be fine.

Get All-in-One SEO plugin to help optimize as well. It's free.

Google should still find it, even without links.

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srbilles

13 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelCross

Hey guys,

Quick question - I have a simple sales site, and I want to start doing some serious SEO work with it (building backlinks, etc.) Some questions:

1) I've read that you need plenty of content on your site - can you use an autoblogging software like WP Robot to generate this?

2) If you never link to your blog, but you just have it sitting in a sub-folder on your site, does Google still "count" it? In other words, if I have a blog that no one will ever see, and I use autoblog software to load it with content, will Google regard that positively (provided the content on the blog is more or less unique)?

Thanks in advance for the answers. I'm totally mystified by the relationship between SEO and having a blog. Any advice to clear things up would be great.

Thanks,

MC

To answer your first question, you do not need a lot of content to rank in the serps. I would be more focused on providing quality content to your visitors then worried about how many pages you have.
You can rank a site with just one page if you wanted to because google ranks "Pages" not "Sites".

For your second question, you do not need a blog to do seo. A static site will rank just as easily as a blog will.

If your site is a long term project for you then I wouldn't use a autoblogging software on it IMHO. That is short term thinking and provides no value to your visitor.

Unless you want a place where you can add some content and then have your visitors and subscribers come and start a dialog with you over the content you put up, there is really no point in having a blog as it won't help you rank any faster.

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leapharris

13 years ago

Blog will give a definite amount of traffic to your web site if it contains relevant tips to your category and which will helps SEO a lot.

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dburk 13 years ago

Hi MC,

I wouldn't say you "need" a blog.

I've read that you need plenty of content on your site

This is not necessary, you need lots of content to promote your website, but it does not need to be placed on your sales website. In fact, that may be counterproductive to conversions.

The content used to promote traffic to your sales pages can be placed all over the internet, on blogs, web 2.0 sites, forums, guest blogging, directories, classifieds, advertisements, etc. Keep just the optimal amount of content on your sales website for maximizing conversions, no less and no more. Place your promotional content on other websites with links back to your sales pages.
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jhonsean

13 years ago

Blog hosting will do in SEO. Its an effective technique of quality link building because its content will give your site an exposure and gain quality backlinks this will gives an improvement to your PR.

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MichaelCross

13 years ago

Thanks for the responses, everyone. Yeah, I'm not really interested in having a blog to provide info to my customers - I was only interested in how having that content would effect rankings. From what I read here, it seems promotional materials and backlinks are more important than having the content on-site.

Thanks,

MC

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deloriagod

13 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelCross

Hey guys,

Quick question - I have a simple sales site, and I want to start doing some serious SEO work with it (building backlinks, etc.) Some questions:

1) I've read that you need plenty of content on your site - can you use an autoblogging software like WP Robot to generate this?

2) If you never link to your blog, but you just have it sitting in a sub-folder on your site, does Google still "count" it? In other words, if I have a blog that no one will ever see, and I use autoblog software to load it with content, will Google regard that positively (provided the content on the blog is more or less unique)?

Thanks in advance for the answers. I'm totally mystified by the relationship between SEO and having a blog. Any advice to clear things up would be great.

Thanks,

MC

1. You don't NEED a lot of content on your website, but depending on the type of site you want to run then a lot of content can be a good thing. I have a website offering free information plus affiliate products. I also run Adsense on the site and have Unique Article Wizard feeding a few articles to my site every day (for possible Adsense revenue). You need to keep a few things in mind when you have something auto-feeding content to your website:

-Google likes sites that get updated often. Getting new articles every few days is a good thing.
-The more content you have, the more traffic you can bring in. One of your topics might not interest someone buy that person may find your site through another topic.
-Sometimes the auto-feeders mess up. It's nothing huge, but check on the articles that get published to your website. I have a couple of auto-blogs and I sometimes find completely off-topic articles. Like an article about developing relationships with customers on one of my weight loss blogs.

2. You're not talking about creating a subdomain are you? If that's the case, you're wasting your time. Google sees domains and subdomains as two entirely different websites. If you want the fresh content bonus, they have to be on the same domain. What I do for my main website (powered by WordPress) is run all of my quality info and products as pages then have the articles as posts then just added the categories to my sidebar so that the articles are accessible and the site is easily navigated.