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[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

For those interested, adding blog page to your website is a good idea & great for SEO & rankings. A well written blog will change the dynamic & content of your site, Google loves sites that are updated regularily, with informative,ever changing,relevant content.
There is a vast opportunity to describe your jobs and work experiences in many written ways. In time,this will build into a Wikepedia of tiling & give you far better search results.
Working on creating my blog at present. Will probably need professional help as it does not seem that simple.

 

[Dan]

For those interested, adding blog page to your website is a good idea & great for SEO & rankings. A well written blog will change the dynamic & content of your site, Google loves sites that are updated regularily, with informative,ever changing,relevant content.
There is a vast opportunity to describe your jobs and work experiences in many written ways. In time,this will build into a Wikepedia of tiling & give you far better search results.
Working on creating my blog at present. Will probably need professional help as it does not seem that simple.

Couldn't agree more.

Good advice there.

Though one area people fail on this if they're not used to being a blogger (which in some sense does actually fall into the category of 'journalist') is when they content isn't fresh, isn't up to date, or worse, isn't accurate.

If you blog, you need to do it regularly and accurately. And more to the point, you need to make it interesting to the READER (and not Google). Google loves content that is good for the reader, and cleverly works out what content is made JUST for google and it will often bring no benefit that way.

So blog things you'd want to read yourself but can't find already, and you'll be leagues ahead of those that just RSS feed automated blog posts into their system for the sake of content.

 

[Colour Republic]

I'm glad you brought up blogging Dan as I have a question that has been bothering me...

As usual i'm just about to waffle so stay with me!

I always intended to have a blog page on my website, this is for 2 reasons. 1) I think you can tell a lot about a person or company based on what they blog about, so it is a subtle selling tool if you do it right. 2) of course this is purely for SEO.

With number 2 in mind (and this doesn't relate to content of the blog, purely logistics of a blog), can it harm you by having a pre-made blog page? say for example you have set up a google 'blogger' account. Google kindly give you your own web address (XXXXX.blogspot.com) but you want to distance yourself and maybe appear more professional so you re-direct that page to a subdomain of your website (blog.besttilerintheworld.com). Now the question is this... does google class any posts in the blog as part of your site (www.besttilierintheworld.com) and thus an update and fresh content or does it class it as fresh content on the host website (XXXXX.blogspot.com)? Of course either way it benefits SEO but one much more than the other.

Hoe does it work Dan

 

[Dan]

With blogspot.com, googlesites (I think) and wordpress.com, you can take a domain to your free blogpsace. I used to do the blogspot thing quite often but now simply host wordpress blogs. It's more customisable that way.

If you DO 'tag' a domain to your account, it'll class the content within it as owned by the domain providing you link to the domain and not the free sub-domain. If you launched a website using the sub, then tagged a domain later, I'm not sure how it would be handled if you had already started to link to your sub'.

Though I'm sure after time, and linking to your main domain from the moment you can, it would swap the 'ownership' and therefore pull up the main domain within it's search results. I'm sure a google webmasters account these days can allow you to swap domains from one to another providing both are in your account. Not done it myself, just seen the option to do something which i assume is that.

Apologies for the waffly reply

 

[Colour Republic]

With blogspot.com, googlesites (I think) and wordpress.com, you can take a domain to your free blogpsace. I used to do the blogspot thing quite often but now simply host wordpress blogs. It's more customisable that way.

If you DO 'tag' a domain to your account, it'll class the content within it as owned by the domain providing you link to the domain and not the free sub-domain. If you launched a website using the sub, then tagged a domain later, I'm not sure how it would be handled if you had already started to link to your sub'.

Though I'm sure after time, and linking to your main domain from the moment you can, it would swap the 'ownership' and therefore pull up the main domain within it's search results. I'm sure a google webmasters account these days can allow you to swap domains from one to another providing both are in your account. Not done it myself, just seen the option to do something which i assume is that.

Apologies for the waffly reply

OK, you're gonna have to bear with me mate, I'm getting the boys to translate what you said:smilewinkgrin:

In the mean time if anybody else can help, please do

 

[user123]

With blogspot.com, googlesites (I think) and wordpress.com, you can take a domain to your free blogpsace. I used to do the blogspot thing quite often but now simply host wordpress blogs. It's more customisable that way.

If you DO 'tag' a domain to your account, it'll class the content within it as owned by the domain providing you link to the domain and not the free sub-domain. If you launched a website using the sub, then tagged a domain later, I'm not sure how it would be handled if you had already started to link to your sub'.

Though I'm sure after time, and linking to your main domain from the moment you can, it would swap the 'ownership' and therefore pull up the main domain within it's search results. I'm sure a google webmasters account these days can allow you to swap domains from one to another providing both are in your account. Not done it myself, just seen the option to do something which i assume is that.

Apologies for the waffly reply

Eh?? (Was REALLY proud to understand Rob's question...).. come again?

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I understood Robs Hieroglyphics perfectly:lol:

 

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

Couldn't agree more.

Good advice there.

Though one area people fail on this if they're not used to being a blogger (which in some sense does actually fall into the category of 'journalist') is when they content isn't fresh, isn't up to date, or worse, isn't accurate.

If you blog, you need to do it regularly and accurately. And more to the point, you need to make it interesting to the READER (and not Google). Google loves content that is good for the reader, and cleverly works out what content is made JUST for google and it will often bring no benefit that way.

So blog things you'd want to read yourself but can't find already, and you'll be leagues ahead of those that just RSS feed automated blog posts into their system for the sake of content.

Thanks,Dan
may be asking for some help from someone who has the expertise to help me set up my blog page. My website requires that it is done through windows live spaces & link back to my site. Still scratching my head !

http://ask.officelive.com/smallbusi...ny-site-using-office-live-small-business.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA102369111033&ns=OFLV20&lcid=1033


The second link is causing me a headache because I do not understand what to do

 

[doug boardley]

 

[Dan]

Thanks,Dan
may be asking for some help from someone who has the expertise to help me set up my blog page. My website requires that it is done through windows live spaces & link back to my site. Still scratching my head !

Add a blog to your company site using Office Live Small Business - Small Business Team Blog - Office Live Small Business Community

Office Live Help


The second link is causing me a headache because I do not understand what to do

Just had a quick look. I've never used an Offlice Live Small Business thing (account/service?) so the "click on page manager" etc just doesn't ring any bells with me.

I'd simply download wordpress and upload it to your hosting space under a domain.com/BLOGNAME folder. It's the most simple way I've found.

 

[diamondtiling]

With blogspot.com, googlesites (I think) and wordpress.com, you can take a domain to your free blogpsace. I used to do the blogspot thing quite often but now simply host wordpress blogs. It's more customisable that way.

If you DO 'tag' a domain to your account, it'll class the content within it as owned by the domain providing you link to the domain and not the free sub-domain. If you launched a website using the sub, then tagged a domain later, I'm not sure how it would be handled if you had already started to link to your sub'.

Though I'm sure after time, and linking to your main domain from the moment you can, it would swap the 'ownership' and therefore pull up the main domain within it's search results. I'm sure a google webmasters account these days can allow you to swap domains from one to another providing both are in your account. Not done it myself, just seen the option to do something which i assume is that.

Apologies for the waffly reply

Come again Chuck? one sugar or two?

:excl:

 

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

Just had a quick look. I've never used an Offlice Live Small Business thing (account/service?) so the "click on page manager" etc just doesn't ring any bells with me.

I'd simply download wordpress and upload it to your hosting space under a domain.com/BLOGNAME folder. It's the most simple way I've found.

Think this is basically the same, but you are using Windows Live Spaces to host your blog & directly link to your site!

 

[longboat]

First class execution, attention to detail and excellent camera work. The floor tiling in the round wetroom is stunning. Well done mate.