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Six Reasons Why Blogs Are So Good for SEO – flyte blog: web marketing strategies for small business

November 20th, 2008 | by Conrad Walton |

Here are the first three reasons that your small business really should have a blog of some sort. I know you want a normal “brochureware” site, but posting good content regularly is magic in terms of traffic and people finding out about your small business. Static pages are so 1998.

Six Reasons Why Blogs Are So Good for SEO – flyte blog: web marketing strategies for small business

Posting good content regularly is magic in terms of traffic.
I’ve been trumpeting the benefits of blogging for search engine visibility for a while now, and here’s why:

1. Blogs are all about content. Search engines love content. They don’t love Flash, and they’re still struggling with photos and video, but they absolutely get content.

2. Blogs have text-based navigation. Search engines have an easier time with text based (vs. image based) navigation because it’s more transparent. Search engines for a while now have told us that they want sites to serve up the same information/experience to a search engine bot as to a person.

3. Blogs offer lots of links. If search engines feast on words, they travel on links. Blogs are often a good place to find new content on the Web.

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