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Do it yourself SEO by Blogging can be both fun
and frustrating at the same time. However, once
you get the hang of it, it can enable even the
most non-technical person to have a voice on
the Internet without paying a Webmaster to post
everything. The added advantage is that most
blog platforms have been created with SEO in
mind, making them search engine friendly! Carrie
Hill and Mary
Bowling share
some of their strategies and tactics using blog
platforms to build websites.
Recorded Live:
June 1, 2007 Segment 1; Segment
2; Segment
3; Segment 4
Why
Use a Blog to Build a Website? |
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| Blogs offer many benefits over
traditional websites. You can be your own
webmaster, which saves you money and time.
With open source platforms, like WordPress,
and thousands of themes (templated designs)
you can use for free, the question really
is, why not use a blog?! |
Search
Engine Optimization (SEO) for Blogs |
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| Blogs have built-in SEO benefits
over most traditional websites. There are
other tactics you can use to optimize your
blog, as well. |
Search
Engine Optimization (SEO) Plugins
for Wordpress |
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| Plugins are easy ways to add features to your blog without having to write code. The most important of these are the plugins for SEO which will allow you to properly optimize your blog for the Search Engines. |
Other WordPress Plugins |
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| There are thousands of plugins
available for WordPress that will help you
quickly and easily customize your blog. Whatever
you want your blog to do, someone has probably
created a plugin that will work for you.
Mary and Carrie share some of the plugins
they use to enhance websites. |
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