Google and blogs and match made in Heaven?

I have certainly found this to be completely true. And it’s not just Google, but all the search engines. Ironically my first big traffic boost and Google attention was about the iPod as well. Now has all this spidering helped my traffic, not really, but that’s okay. In my mind, my stats are a proof to clients that if you want to raise your profile with search engines blogs are a great way. They aren’t the only way for sure. Blogs don’t replace good SEO work, but as Mike pointed out blogs are: websites with content updated frequently with links to (and from) other websites and the content is frequently all within a narrow area of focus. Sounds like a search engine magnet to me.

Mike also counters the perception that blogs are clogging the search engine space (the bias that they aren’t real news, information, journalism, etc). Blogs are often updated minutes after a piece of news breaks and have passionate commentary. What more could any news outlet or company want. The minute I got the Grooveblog post that Groove v3 was officially out, it was on my site. That night it was spidered. Just spreading the word.

Gotta love blogs.

Google Loves Weblogs
July 21, 2004 by Mike Rundle

Since this past Saturday, more than 70% of the traffic coming to my personal website has been from Googlers searching for terms like “hPod” or “blue hPod”. Apple announced new iPods on Monday, and then verified that they were producing an HP-branded blue iPod based on the 4th generation model they just came out with. So why is this so amazing?

Weblogs are chock full of archived information, and when I wrote about the HP iPod (or hPod for short) rumor, I wrote about it back in January (my site is currently being redesigned live, so please forgive me!). That little page has been dormant for 7 months, but just sprang to life upon the thousands of Googlers who clicked on the link in the search results.