Blogging Goes Mainstream

A lot of people still seem to think that blogging is for amateurs, individuals, and dilitantes.

Guess again. Blogging is going mainstream, and being picked up on by big corporations.

I've been encouraging you for months to incorporate blogs and RSS into your internet marketing strategy. The "big boys" are doing it, so why shouldn't you?

This article on RSS just appeared in Fortune Magazine. If icons of the mainstream business community see the power of Blogs and RSS, then you should, too.



Happy Blogging!



John

Getting a Site Spidered Quickly

Hi, folks.

I know it's been quite a while since I posted to the blog. My apologies. I was out of the country for several weeks, and more recently have been immersed in developing a number of new sites which will diversify my internet business somewhat more.

Getting the new sites spidered is the focus of this post. If you've read my ebook, you know I've said that having a blog can help you to get a site spidered and indexed by the search engines quickly. I've repeated that statement here, and in articles that I've written.

Now I can give you a real world example. As part of the project mentioned above, I just finished a brand new ebook. No, it's not about blogging, but about the related topic of email marketing.

I will be selling the new ebook through ClickBank, so I wanted to get the order and download links all set before putting up any links to the site. I spent several days getting it all set, and then mentioned it in one of my blogs on the day the site went "live".

Within less than 48 hours, the brand new site had seen 2 visits from the googlebot. Now, two days later, good old googlebot has been back 4 more times, and the MSNbot has come to visit once.

I did add links to the site from two of my other sites, so this is not entirely attributable to the original blog post. The initial visits from the googlebot are, however.

Could I have gotten the site spidered within less than 48 hours without the blog post? Based upon my own past experience, I'd say emphatically NO.

I've lost count of how many sites I have in total, but my past experience has been that I had to wait weeks, or longer, before any of them got its first visit from a search engine spider.

This time around, the first visit came within less than 48 hours, based upon *one* mention of the new site in *one* of my blogs. I hadn't even posted to that blog in about two months.

Still think this stuff doesn't work? Try it, and see for yourself ...

Happy Blogging!

John.