Blog SEO Experiment

[Alston]

I wanted to see how many consecutive daily blog posts I had to do to get Google to revisit my new insurance tips blog once a day.

The site was already indexed and ranked before I started blogging on it and it had a few inbound links, but it wasn't being visited very often.

It took 17 consecutive daily posts.

The blog is on the WordPress platform. I think this proves that you don't have to use the Blogger platform to get Googlebot to revisit frequently. The frequency of your posts is apparently the main criterion that Google uses to determine the frequency of Googlebot's visits.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

Good stuff! I hope my blog has the same success!

Ohio Health Insurance

 

[Alston]

Chumps,

I like your blog. Let me know if you want to trade guest blog posts.

Here my proposed guidelines:

• 400 to 800 words
• Unique content
• Author attribution and one back link in the first paragraph
• My back link will be for a state far from Ohio.

I may make the same trade with others, but I've got to like your blog to do so.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

Hi Alston. I sent you a PM. If it helps both of us, I'm game. (But don't shoot me)

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[somarco]

Only one criticism, Alston. Font is small enough to make me want to bypass your blog as it is too hard for these 58 year old eyes to read.

 

[Alston]

Only one criticism, Alston. Font is small enough to make me want to bypass your blog as it is too hard for these 58 year old eyes to read.

You're right. I may play with the CSS to get it to look a little better at some point, but I'm not all that motivated. That blog is much more for SEO than for client confidence building.

Your blog is really outstanding visually. I've seen few that look as good. Is that a template that was used "out of the box" or did someone customize a template or create something from scratch for you?

This is the blog for my agency's site Connecticut health insurance blog. It is better looking than the blogs I use for my lead gen business, but not in the same league as your blog.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

Quick question Alston...From what I understand, spiders are "excited" to see new content every day. On a blog, that seems easy.

But on one's main website...well...adding daily content seems a bit more difficult. If your blog is embedded in your website, and you create new content daily, does that mean it is less important to add new daily content to the website itself?

 

[moonlightandmargaritas]

From what I understand, spiders are "excited" to see new content every day.

Is there a practical way to measure their excitement? Do they pop a spider "woody" or somethin'?

 

[somarco]

Thx for the kind words, Alston. It is a Cutline template for Wordpress. Easy to work with even for a novice like me.

 

[Alston]

Quick question Alston...From what I understand, spiders are "excited" to see new content every day. On a blog, that seems easy.

But on one's main website...well...adding daily content seems a bit more difficult. If your blog is embedded in your website, and you create new content daily, does that mean it is less important to add new daily content to the website itself?

I think that it is less important to add content to the main part of your website if you blog regularly. However, you also get SEO benefit from making revisions to pages. This is easier than making new pages.

By the way, it would be pretty easy for anyone who knows MySql to dynamically pull the title of your lastest blog post and print it on your home page (or other pages). This way, your home page would update every time you blogged. I haven't done it yet, but I'm planning to include this in a forthcoming overhall of my sites. It can be done with a self-hosted WordPress blog, but not a Blogger blog.

The way to tell how frequently your blog is read by a particular search engine is to search for a line of text that exists on your latest blog. Enter that text in quotation marks. If you blogged 24 hours ago and you can find your newest post in the SERP, you know you blog was visited within the last 24 hours. If you blog again today and perform the same test with the same results tomorrow, you know that your blog is being read about at least once per day.

Unless you are trying to compete with CNN.com or this forum, once per day is pretty good.