A Few Reasons Why Search Engines Love Blogs

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A commonly debated topic on the Web pertains to the belief that search engines love blogs. It is contested that blogs are essential marketing tools. Traditional entrepreneurs looking to cross over Ecommerce find this difficult to understand.

Here are ten reasons why search engines seem to love blogs:

1. Frequent Updates

Search engines place newly indexed sites on the upper level of its indexed pages. These pages are ranked and compared to previous updates. Frequent updates mean search engine spiders are happy. This is because they are fed new content.

2. Keyword-rich

Not all blog posts should be novels. Blogs that are used for marketing are preferred when it is short and direct. Blog posts that are succinct tend to be keyword-rich. This will still favor indexing.

3. Blogging Platforms use Title Tags

Blogging platforms optimize the way your site looks. It creates automatic on-site search engine optimization. Creating title tags from your post topics is one of its capabilities. An effective way to improve your rankings is to use title tags.

4. Cross-linking

Linking to other blogs is a sign of courtesy. Many blogs link back as part of the blogosphere code of etiquette. This method of indirect back link solicitation works well for blogs. This also goes for blogs of the same niche.

5. Use of Anchor-links

Using anchor links is another on-site search engine optimization technique. Spiders index links become part of the weight. Tags should go with them using highly relevant keyword text. It will add to the weight of the web site as a whole.

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Yes, for someone just starting with internet marketing, blogs are fantastic for all of the above benefits, and they are free and easy to use. Many new internet marketers dont think a blog would work cuz they had adsense on their personal journal blog and made no money, so they don't think it'd work. They also don't see blogs as real websites so they don't want to trust the platform.

It's really sad that such a great online marketing tool is so available and free and easy to use but many people don't tap into it and continue to wonder why they fail at internet marketing.