[Cratima]

I've read that blogs are seen better by search engines, because of their continuous update.
We've tried this thing before but we've got little results.
We want to create a new blog. My main interest is to bring traffic for cratima website and new business for the company.
Before we'll decide to transform this thought into reality I have some questions.
1. Should we put the blog on Cratima 's domain name, on should I make a blog on blogspot, myspace...etc.
2. Regarding the content. We want the blog to be about new internet solution that can help new businesses. a) We can search the web, find out news, filtered them and then put the most interesting in our blog. b) We can add value to different news on the net, value from our knowledge and business.
c) Use both articles with added value and some funny stories related to the businesses.
3. How many blog administrators are necessary to make it interesting (with quality and enough information)

Thanks!

[James H]

My website is a kind of blog. I find search engines pick up best when you do an update every few days, giving titles to each of the entries.

It's hit and miss, but that seems to work.

[Mongoose]

If you set it up right, when you post something on a blog, various trackers get notified of the update and send links to your new content across the internets. There are various ways you, as the administrator, can improve this process, including optimizing your feeds with a services like FeedBurner and inserting search-prone keywords in your article headers, intro paragraphs, etc.

[SEO Freelancer]

Adding a blog to your current site can help you generate additional traffic, communicate to industry you are in and most importantly, build trust with your visitors. As far as the blog domain hosting it varies because many businesses choose to host their blog separately from their main business website. I recommend to host it on blogger or wrodpress because it can be useful as it separates the formal from the conversational and prevents these two styles from conflicting. But don’t be surprised if your blog starts getting more traffic that your main site. I does happen. However, in order to see results from your blog you need to have a strong solid search engine optimization strategy which requires time and effort on weekly basis.

Boston SEO Freelancer

[shadowdom29]

I have a blog added to my site. I setup a part of my site so that it displays the RSS feed from my blog in a side bar. This way my site viewers are able to see a sample of 3 of my latest posts and get to my blog by simply clicking on a title.

Now my blog is wordpress software hosted on my server. I chose wordpress for a number of reasons. Mostly because it allows far more flexibility than Blogger does. There's a whole lot more you can do, even when it comes just to formatting your posts.

Wordpress is also about 80% SEO'd OOTB (out of the box). I installed an All-In-One-SEO plugin to my wordpress which bumps the SEO aspect another 10-15%. This leaves the other 5-10% being entirely good SEO practices in your posts.

I also have my posts pinging in a whole lot of places. I cant remember all of the services that ping my blog but I think I'm not even using FeedBurner. I found another one that pings most if not all the sites feedburner does, plus more.

I also manually submit each of my posts to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Google Bookmarks, del.icio.us, etc.

I'm an analytics nut. I love seeing to tweak something in my marketing strategy and observe its effects on a whole lot of aspects of my sites stats.

One thing I noticed is that having a blog connected directly to your site will increase the traffic you get from various key phrases.

For instance, having a post explaining why a customer needs a website to improve their business will get you traffic from the people who simply type into google, "Why do I need a website?". And that is one of my most searched key phrases.

Dont put a blog on your site simply to just have a blog. There are a whole lot of things you should do to do it right. SEO it totally, write strategic and well thought out and written posts.

[paulanthony]

1. Should we put the blog on Cratima 's domain name, on should I make a blog on blogspot, myspace...etc.

Own domain. Preferable to keep it on its own domain not a subdomain. See.
Why do you need your own domain to blog successfully?

2. Regarding the content. We want the blog to be about new internet solution that can help new businesses. a) We can search the web, find out news, filtered them and then put the most interesting in our blog. b) We can add value to different news on the net, value from our knowledge and business.
c) Use both articles with added value and some funny stories related to the businesses.

Is that a question or a statement? Just be careful not to plagurise, and work hard to create original content - regularly.

3. How many blog administrators are necessary to make it interesting (with quality and enough information)

Some major blogs post 1-5 times a day. Smaller ones 1-3 times a week. The answer is As-often-as-you-can-within-the-realms-of-outstanding-content.

[carbide20]

I would agree about having your own domain. Looks far more professional

[nixer180]

The most important thing is content. Personally, I would say the more people you can get to write for it, the better. Articles and commentary are both great, but make sure they are original! People may find your blog, but if you don't update regularly AND have interesting content they won't be back. Build up a base of loyal readers to really see the traffic jump up.

Submitting on sites such as delicious and digg will also help, but again, to get to the top of these sites your blog has to appeal to readers.

[zharlene]

Originally Posted by Cratima

1. Should we put the blog on Cratima 's domain name, on should I make a blog on blogspot, myspace...etc.

What about 'all of the above'? Have all your posts typed out on the main blog (.com) and then on blogpost, myspace etc. you can write snippets incl. links to your the articles.

[4folds]

Good content is everything in a blog. If you keep adding to it regularly with things that are unique with good keywords, then it'll get you traffic. Also, make sure to put links to things like "your website" if the purpose is to drive traffic into your site.

[mbell31]

I think the most important thing to focus on besides content is getting back links from reputable sites to yours.