Going from Naked Stick Figure to Fabulous

Which came first the website or the blog?

While it’s important to have some sort of presence on the Web, the times they are a changin, for what drives search engine mojo.

Did you know you can have a blog self-hosted on your domain that can give you the very added bonus of driving natural search engine traffic each time you post new content.

 Yes, I’ve definitely partaken of the blog Kool-aid!

 Here is a new way to look at what your site is creating for you.

Search engines love updated CONTENT and lots of it. Content is what colors the stick figure of your website and keeps the search engines coming back for more.

Think of it in terms of what search engines see. A stick figure website with no blog, no keywords, no tags, no new content, no feeds. (See Option 1 below)

Option #1 your website without a blog:

Option #2 – your website with a blog:

I think I would pick Option #2.

While you don’t have to have your entire website built on a Wordpress platform – you can at least add a blog to the website so that each time you’re posting your brilliance the web crawlers are coming back to the site!

Using tags and categories for your blog posts also help you grow your search engine visibility as does linking to outside blogs! (Authentically!)

 Even if you decide to stay stick figure and not have a blog, you should still help your site along by:

 1. Submit to the ADD URL form through Google – http://www.google.com/addurl.html .

 2. Submit your site to (MSN) LIVE -

http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx . 

 3. Submit your site to Yahoo – https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit  

 Now go out there and attract those web crawlers!!