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.
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.
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?
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.
It's not necessary 17 posts. When the blog is new then maybe you need 17 consecutive posts. But if you are not desperate to get updated everyday as soon as possible you can write 2-3 posts per week and after a month or so you will be visited every time you update the content.
I also assume your wordpress ping is on. Ping is an automatic mechanism by which a blog "notifies" a server that its content has been updated, so spiders "rush" to index your new content...
Well, I'm glad you were able to attract the search engine spiders as you had hoped for. I don't use Blogger, and Wordpress had been just fine for me too. I don't post each day, but a few times a week. And every time I make a new post, the spiders come crawling. To be honest I think it had a lot to do with Wordpress itself.
Well mybe website better than blog but i have been made a experiment that google indexed blog registered at bloger.com more faster than other sites
Look at my site it is a example : Insurance Quotes Online
If you want your site indexed use Googles webmaster tools (Google "Google webmaster tools") and set up your domain. You'll be indexed in a few hours.
As far as search engine spiders, frequent posting is critical. You want to do it on a regular basis. It's not like you can do 6 today and say you're done for the week. Do one everyday and you'll be gold in a few months.
However, blogs don't generate a lot of high quality traffic. I don't want traffic. I want buyers. I keep seeing a lot of people posting here about getting traffic but unless they're buying I could care less about traffic. I'm not out to spread my name. I'm out to sell insurance.
Maybe I'm wrong but my PPC campaigns make me go to the bank a hell of a lot more than my blog posts. And, now that they're running well I spend less time working on it. I'll take being wrong if it comes with the paycheck.
Maybe I'm reading what everyone is saying here incorrectly but my experience is go after the money. I've been blogging over a year and the money ain't in the blog, it's my PPC campaigns.
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