Category: Blogs

We are ghost blogging for some great new clients and wanted to highlight them for you to check out.

Trucker to Trucker – a blog for semi-truck drivers and freight line operators. You’ll find this blog helpful and interesting from popular local truck stop restaurant reviews all the way to fuel economy savings and new equipment available for purchase.

Wirester – a blog for a premium wireless phone and accessory store. We’ve just started blogging for this site, but stay tuned for great reviews on new phones, cool phone accessories, and super saver promotions on cell phones, charges, phone covers, and much more.

Parker Web Marketing – a question and answer blog on topics important to website owners. Got a question tell us and we’ll tell you the solution or offer suggestions.

Many of the same techniques that you routinely use for good search engine optimization on your website should be used on your blog. Here are some of our top tips.

• Make sure your blog post contains your top keywords but don’t spam
• Keep your blog posts keyword dense and on one topic
• Use the title link field to make your title clickable to point to an article or your website for more information
• If you have a link in the content, make sure that you properly use keywords in the anchor text
• For more boost try bolding your important keywords in your post or in your anchor text
• Our typical blog post is about 200 to 350 words, don’t write a dissertation
• Use labels if you can with your keywords in the label

There is no right or wrong way to write your blog, but there is a more effective way to get better search engine placement using your blog.

This is a good article to read from the Blog Herald. The article speaks about potential problems of copyright infringement when bloggers embed YouTube videos. But should you believe it?

My take on it is this. If you post your video on YouTube, you are wanting others to see and to share your video content otherwise you would not upload it. Same goes for Google Video. If you want to control your video then you simply do not load it onto Google Video or on YouTube. Very simple.

I find it hard to believe that a lawyer for a person who felt that their video had been infringed upon would contact and try to sue people who have posted a YouTube video uploaded by their client. The issue may exist in the a totally litigious minded group on the Ethernet, but in the real world come on!

I am a big stickler on copyright issues, but I think that this issue and the warning flags issued are not in the scope of real world use.

I love the widgets that the new Blogger hosted on Blogspot provides, but I have to say that there is no replacement for the search engine benefits and ability to create a template for your blog that matches your site seamlessly. I have just made a new blog template for my Web-World Watch blog. Click the post title and you can see it.

Blogspot hosting does not seriously affect your search engine placement, but Blogspot blogs do not show under your main domain in the search engine results either. There are good reasons to use a Blogspot blog and good reasons to use the old Blogger with custom FTP blogging.

My personal preference is custom FTP blogging on the old blogger. Eventually Blogger will work out a way I am sure to get the best of both worlds, but until then you just have to choose. – cool widgets and flexibility or better search engine placement with your domain and no widgets.