Great Answers To My Questions About Blogging!

After reading through Thomas Pierce's blog last
night I had a few questions for him.

Being the professional that he is he quickly
responded to my questions!

Here was the exchange:

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Re: Create Blog Success - Blog Traffic Secrets
Revealed by Jerry Belcourt at 12:52AM (EST) on
Feb 19, 2005 | Permanent Link
Hi Thomas,

Just wanted to say thanks for the information on
your blog and on the Frank Kern/Ed Dale call a
couple of weeks ago.

I have a question for you. I just created a couple
of "niche blogs" and am using blogger.com the free
service from Google.

Do you know if the search engines "crawl" the free
blog services as much as a stand alone blog say
hosted on my webhost's server?

Do you think the "crawling" and algorithms by the
search engines could possibly get "bogged down" by
crawling the free service and not give my blogs a
"fair reading"?

In other words, do you think it's better, no
difference, or worse to have a free service blog
or a specific blog on my webhost's server?

Any feedback greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Jerry
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Re: Re: Create Blog Success - Blog Traffic Secrets
Revealed by TL at 03:56PM (EST) on Feb 19, 2005 |
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Hi Jerry, Thanks for coming by and visiting!

In answer to your question...yes. You blog will
get crawled based a few reasons and free, paid or
self-installed isn't the determining factor
entirely. All things being even, good content,
frequently publishing, lots of links and of course
ping updates and directory submissions all
contribute to your blog and content getting
discovered and crawled frequently.

You should also know that publishing frequency has
quite a bit to do with the crawling algorithm of
spiders at your blog. Publish often and the
algorithm cranks up. Publish less and the algorithm
cranks down. No blog should have an infrequent
publishing schedule. You will get a fair reading
based on the profile I just list and not based on
whether your blog is free or paid.

Now there are some who believe that hosting your
blog on your own server especially when it comes
to using Blogger.com's FTP publishing feature that
there is and advantage to that. I cannot disprove
I've seem some evidence of that although I cannot
say for sure. Also, a blogger.com blog has
definitely been proven to get your content noticed
earlier by Google but then Google own's.
Blogger.com. :-)

One rule of thumb I use is I + C = E. Your intent
plus your content will determine your event
(outcome). In other words it boils down to the
plan you have to reach your market with your blog
and what measureable results you get to determine
whether your blog is succeeding or not.

I can assure that it does not boil down location.
I've created blogs on my own servers and at
blogger that did nothing or moderate. But it was
because of the plan I had for those blogs. The were
for test or short term results. However my two man
blogs that are hosted, one here at BlogHarbor and
one at Typepad.com are both doing very well and
that is because I'm committed to them and keep
them up.

Thanks Jerry!

~Thomas




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Re: Re: Re: Create Blog Success - Blog Traffic
Secrets Revealed by Jerry Belcourt at 06:33PM (EST)
on Feb 19, 2005 | Permanent Link

Hi Thomas,

Thank you very much for the thorough answers to
my questions!!

It confirms for me (and it should for everyone
else) that, like anything "You Get Out Of It What
You Put Into It".

I'm new to blogging but it seems to me that if you
plan a strategy, search for relevant content or
create your own content and stay persistent, that
the higher search engine rankings will come as a
result and the traffic will come next.

You hit it right on the head with your
"Einstein-ian" formula:
I + C = E


From what I gather, if you take the formula one
step further by exponentiation of content i.e:
I + C(n) = HUGE E
(C(n) = increasing relevant content by (n) will
produce "huge" results) you will see an abundance
of traffic!

The saying "Content Is King" comes to mind. So,
increase relevant, targeted, "newsworthy" content
and you should see an increase in traffic.

Just some theories I'm working on ;-)

I could expound further with the I + C = E formula
you introduced me to but I'm not very good with
algebra or would it be physics? (see what I mean)

One more thing. I wanted to share my blog address
with anyone who might be interested in taking a
look at it.

It's on the related subject of "Virtual Real
Estate".

Here is the link: CLICK HERE

By the way, is that proper blog etiquette? To post
a link for everyone to see.... or is there a
"proper" way to go about it or a way to possibly
link to your blog.

Man, I gotta quit rambling and get some work done!
Sorry about the long reply!

Thanks again,

Jerry
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