Comments on: Survey Results: Impact of Blogging on Search Engine Optimization

By: wildnetseo

wildnetseo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:12:20 +0000

Great survey, Blogs play a major role to generate more traffic and their back links..

By: wildnetseo

wildnetseo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:12:20 +0000

Great survey, Blogs play a major role to generate more traffic and their back links..

By: articlewriter

articlewriter — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:17:47 +0000

This is incredible. I knew blogging was used a lot by big companies, but I did not realize it was to this extent. I guess there are more people than I thought using blogs as marketing and sales generators.

By: davidcarroll

davidcarroll — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:53:47 +0000

Great content here. Thanks for this really informative post. I tend to think that for the good ones blogging will continue and for a lot of the rest blogging will die out. A lot of people don't take the time or just don't have the ability to continue to develop a blog over the long haul. the folks that do will continue for years and those that don't will die out

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:55:30 +0000

I doubt blogging will die this year. If it does it is another signal that all we can digest is SMS patience. It's like “short attention span theater on reverse steroids.” We have become a sound bite generation, Twitter will need to condense to 70 characters.

By: Richeale

Richeale — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:44:53 +0000

Thanks for this survey..

By: cheekugames

cheekugames — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:15:10 +0000

I have been trying to use blogging to promote my puzzles site but with not much effect , is there anything i am missing or i need to be more patient, can anyone please guide me to any link for better SEO practices or some thing similar to that.

By: jj-momscashblog

jj-momscashblog — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:59:00 +0000

Great post and very informative I can’t relate to the corporate blogs as I am the owner of a “make money online” blog, but the end result is still the same…SEO. I do however don’t believe that the death of the blog is imminent for 2010 at least for the monetizing bloggers. After reading all that you have mentioned here in your post and some of the comments I don’t believe that companies will stop blogging . Love your post and your list and style of writing. thanks jj

By: David Price

David Price — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:15:10 +0000

Excellent points here. I'm amazed at how many businesses don't utilize the blog or use it properly. The power of blogging is really under appreciated by most businesses, simply because I don't think they fully understand it. Not only does the blog really give out valuable information about the company, product, or service, it can be utilized for linking strategies, but most importantly a long standing blog that is regularly updated with communication to their readers can really be extremely valuable in the long run. Giving their customers the ability to interact and keep up to date with all the latest information regarding the company is and should be a priority.

By: Eric Ast

Eric Ast — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:35:30 +0000

Way to back up the generic “blogging is good fore SEO” argument with some data. Any thoughts on what else those other 94% have in common besides blogging? I'd think those with the ability to keep up are probably a bit better at some other SEO practices as well, so it might no all be the blog.

By: Jamie Allsop

Jamie Allsop — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:58:00 +0000

Thanks for the great informative post. I agree that having a company blog is important for your SEO.

By: Nicholas Kemp

Nicholas Kemp — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:41:00 +0000

Thanks for this outstanding blog post. The bullet points citing the success measures have open my eyes. I don’t think I’ll be able to blink for the rest of the day.

By: Linked Media Group

Linked Media Group — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:09:23 +0000

Great Blog post, insightful analysis and excellent stats. Thanks so much for providing all. We absolutely see tremendous SEO benefits via Blogging for ourselves and clients. One observation, if you map about SEO and Brand Integration on the front end of Blogging (Topics, Keywords, Messaging, etc.) and then develop a topic flow that fits all you will see much more measurable results. Also, the right plug ins makes a tremendous impact on traffic, traction and SEO rankings.

By: Kyle McCabe

Kyle McCabe — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:28:09 +0000

Thanks for a great post.

Blogs will be important for the next few years because search and conversation will continue to be important for businesses. But we'll continue to see changes in the way businesses use the blog, and I'm sure some New Shiny will emerge to begin replacing the traditional blog.

Side note: I recently heard that a local organization put on a seminar in which they claimed a blog was simply a place to dump content you didn't want on your website. *sigh*

By: leeodden

leeodden — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:43:13 +0000

Right – pre-emptive reputation management.

By: leeodden

leeodden — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:42:07 +0000

That's an interesting perspective dominiq. It's along the lines of doing social media keyword research. With SEO, we have a variety of keyword research tools to do this. For social media, there are ways to mine content and links to identify trending keyword phrases that could be used for social media optimization.

By: Kok Siong Chen

Kok Siong Chen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:48:00 +0000

Wow! Great survey statistic! Yes! I agree that SEO is essential in blogging. I already see the significant result of my SEO effort for my new blog for only 2 months time. Thanks for sharing!

By: ann | link building services

ann | link building services — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:33:55 +0000

Company blogs especially can really benefit from a blog when they realize the potential that blogs give them to join the online conversation and tell their brand/company's story, before someone else does.

By: dominiq

dominiq — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:43:51 +0000

Thanks for this great post.

We're experimenting using blogs for an addition benefits i.e our hypothesis is that bloggers and influent bloggers in a community ( let's say Mommies, Hard Gamers, Cloud Computing expert) invent/ coined the expressions that become popular, name pratices, single out resources, sites, success stories and that this language become mainstream.

As an example "dell hell" is a classic now in social media and was invented by J Jarvis and the Social Media Community. "frugalista" is another example in the personal finance community aso.

So, to make a long story short, there seem to be an SEM benefit in reading or even better mining communities of bloggers for finding long tail expressions with huge advertising and SEO potential.

This of course on top of all the benefits that you highlighted. That's the cherry on the cake.

Anyone interested to discuss this ?
Best

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:39:04 +0000

I agree that blogging is huge! But can be dangerous expecially in corporate settings…