Can You Use BlogSpot As Web 2.0?

Links to your site should be one of many pointing to other sites as well. Blogspot is VERY effective.

"Personally I wait a month or two on my web 2.0's before sending outbound signals. And this method has been very successful and not looking like spam or automated postings."

That's a very good strategy indeed. Unlike creating content on web2.0 sites then the same day putting outbound links on the pages.

Noted.

Exactly. Most people doing Internet marketing these days are looking for quick "pop" results. Which is ok for certain situations. When I'm working with clients, I listen to them and see what they expect out of my efforts. Then I try to educate them a little about different techniques that are done throughout the industry. With that information, we build a plan of our attack. But 90% of them understand the quick "pop" results don't have lasting impressions.

I've worked on some projects where the customer has huge databases of pages, 1-5 million. We've tried various methods on getting them indexed and ranked. Now from what I've seen, the slow steady pace of building strong natural backlinks have been the most effective.

We took a site that has 5 million pages, and were able to get 1.5 million of those pages indexed in four months. The ranking of those pages are higher then sites that have been around 4-10 years. And this particular site I'm speaking of was a brand new domain.

So again it depends on what lasting results your looking for.

Don't get carried away.

ONE result from ONE keyword doesn't prove anything (except that it's possible to rank a blogspot blog once and a while).

If you go back to that SERP you'll notice the other 9 results are from non-web 2.0 sites.

If you're serious about building a real brand or a real business, you're not going to use a blogspot blog to set it up.

Have you ever called your girlfriend and say:

"Hey baby, I found this amazing site! It's called printablecoupons.blogpost.com. Oh my God it's amazing!"

Or has someone asked you about your business and you told them:

"Actually I have this site couponspot.blogspot.com. It's great!".

Of course not.

Just because a blogspot page happens to rank doesn't mean it's a viable long-term business model.

After all, if you put all your $$$ behind blogpost, you're relying on Google for your site's infrastructure AND traffic.

That's a huge risk.

There are PLENTY of horror stories out there of Google deleting blogspot accounts without recourse.

In terms of link building, I said "pretty much useless". Not completely useless, but pretty close.

Not sure if you noticed but Google wants to see links from authority sites in your niche. And while there may be a few blogpost "authorities" out there, changing the theme of your 5 page blogspot blog doesn't make it an authority.

So yeah, there's one blogspot page ranking for a tough keyword. That doesn't mean you should cancel your Bluehost account and switch over to blogpost.