Comments on: Isn’t a business website the same as a business blog? http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/06/are-websites-the-same-as-blogs/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:19:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Margot Wurst http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/06/are-websites-the-same-as-blogs/#comment-7 Margot Wurst Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:48:50 +0000 http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/06/are-websites-the-same-as-blogs/#comment-7 Thanks for this informative post! I do have a question/comment! I have the beginnings of a Blog as a part of my website. I like that concept. Is my blog just as visible to the search engines this way as it would be if it were "stand alone"? Actually, you can also get to my blog at blog.adoptiontriadcoach.com. So, do I have myself covered for optimum visibility? Margot Thanks for this informative post! I do have a question/comment! I have the beginnings of a Blog as a part of my website. I like that concept. Is my blog just as visible to the search engines this way as it would be if it were “stand alone”? Actually, you can also get to my blog at blog.adoptiontriadcoach.com. So, do I have myself covered for optimum visibility?

Margot

]]> By: Shonnie http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/06/are-websites-the-same-as-blogs/#comment-8 Shonnie Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:11:20 +0000 http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/06/are-websites-the-same-as-blogs/#comment-8 Great question Margot. Yes, blogs that are part of websites are as visible as stand-alone blogs. Remember, that your blog posts are what generate much of your traffic -- both from search engines crawling your site and indexing what you've written so that people can easily find it later on and from other bloggers who might link to a post of interest or reference your post in their own writing. Be sure to check that your blog is "pinging" blog services. This is basically like your blog sending a quick note out to blog services like feed readers/aggregators saying, "Hey we've got something new on our blog. Come take a look." You can check to see if you're pinging (in WordPress) by going to Options > Writing menus. Scroll to the bottom of the page where you'll see a window labeled "Update Services." Below is what I have listed in that box for my site:<br> http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping Great question Margot. Yes, blogs that are part of websites are as visible as stand-alone blogs. Remember, that your blog posts are what generate much of your traffic — both from search engines crawling your site and indexing what you’ve written so that people can easily find it later on and from other bloggers who might link to a post of interest or reference your post in their own writing.

Be sure to check that your blog is “pinging” blog services. This is basically like your blog sending a quick note out to blog services like feed readers/aggregators saying, “Hey we’ve got something new on our blog. Come take a look.” You can check to see if you’re pinging (in WordPress) by going to Options > Writing menus. Scroll to the bottom of the page where you’ll see a window labeled “Update Services.” Below is what I have listed in that box for my site:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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