Re: Search Engine Submission/Positioning software

From: Scott Allen <Scott_at_OnlineBusinessNetworking.com>
Date: Thu 08 Apr 2004 09:52:57 -0600

Assuming you want to have your blog on your own website/domain, and not
hosted somewhere else (a common practice, but I recommend the former),
then Movable Type is the gold standard, and probably the best choice if
you don't have much technical expertise yourself. It is inexpensive,
feature-rich, and well-supported.

I also highly recommend WordPress (formerly known as b2), which is the
#2 blog software in usage (not counting blog hosting services). It's
what we use on our blog, www.OnlineBusinessNetworks.com/blog. Basic
installation took me less than ten minutes, and getting it fully
configured and integrated into our site like I wanted took less than two
hours. I don't know any PHP programming, but I do know HTML and CSS
extremely well.

All you really have to do to make sure Google recognizes it are:
1) Turn on your automatic notification of Blogs.com, Blo.gs, Yahoo, etc.
2) Link and TrackBack to other bloggers

Google will do the rest from there -- you don't even need to submit it
to Google (in fact, probably shouldn't).

For a VERY detailed set of instructions about how to network with your
blog, see:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=720&topic=-1
http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/blog/2004/2/25/how-to-network-with-your-blog-part-2

Some of the techniques are specific to Blogger.com, but most will apply
to any blog software or hosting service.

Scott Allen
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