David Paul
Savannah GA

Amanda, you are absolutely correct. And one of the advantages a blog adds is the natural multiplicity of pages that flow out of a single post. If you expand out that Google search to include the omitted results you find that Google sees something like 263 references to the keyword that are all somehow related to that post.

In this case 1 post = 263 references in Google. You won’t see that kind of a ratio in a traditional website.

And most of them are either pages where the post appears or a link to the post appears.

I deliberately chose an obscure keyword to target so that we could more easily see the effects of that one post and how many different ways Google would pick it up.

Obviously a more competitive keyword would take more than one post to see results. Even so, by steadily focusing in on different aspects of the same subject, overtime effective blogging will see positive results.

What I’m trying to show is blogging in itself would not help. The search engines still would not read the page correctly. You gave an example of your post showing up in Google. The search result on google did get their name on google, by other people writing about it. I would think the goal would be to get the top result using the keyword “wgsa” and the search engine pointing back to the WGSA site. You did mention that you got results on an obscure part of the problem – WGSA – cw13. I do not think most businesses would like to dominate anything in search if it isn’t going to be used. I can make up anybody’s web page and misspell their name so bad that it will be the only result that shows up in google, BUT – who is going to use it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure they are happy to see anything!

I think what you are saying is “You” got them listed by your blog, and you did. That does not solve their problem. Even if they started a blog it would not help their problem. I want them to show up number one when you type in WGSA. They do not have a proper document tree, and they are using code that is not valid!
I was also trying to say to you, that even your code is not being picked up by search engines. I also said you are doing all this work, and doing a great job at it, BUT – It could be so much better. YOU ARE Doing great, but could be doing something better.
As far as the slap upside my head….I’m the opposite of you, I splatter info and expect everyone to understand! I do throw info out there and do not spend time making sure its making sense. If we but heads long enough, we will both get what we want! You have my permission to SLAP all you want. You have to get the info for the readers.
You mentioned you’re a business blogger. I will guess the more pages that get read, the more money you make. Nobody knows exactly what search engines are reading, no one is an SEO expert. BUT – knowing how google reads your pages may help you become a bigger success then you already are. Are you sure that 600 pages are indexed by google or your name comes up in 600 instances of your name? You directed me to the search box on your page. That search box is programmed to go out and search a word on your site. It has nothing to do with search engines.
Suggestion for WGSA – Pretty site, but in this case, pretty comes in last. You already have them to your site, you don’t have to whoo them.
Suggestion for Chris – keep up the good work, your doing fine.
Suggestion for SWW, Paul Lamach – get back to work and quit making people think! I will spend more time on my blogging comments….maybe…..

Its a lot worst but I dont have time right now.

Not quite sure what you mean with all that about semantics. SuccessCREEations has the blog title in h1 tags so there is a set on every page.

Everyone thinks the same way you do. is not a size thingy….lovin that word….using css I can make the smallest size type on the page, and the largest. It all has to do with……ready for this…..semantics!…..without semantics, google does not read. If no on your page, no read. You have to have a document tree. WordPress has it but you will not like it! Have a headache! Ha Ha!!!

That said, I’m not so good at reading between the lines. I tend to be a bit of a literal guy. (My wife says I’m a little Spock-like.)

If I don’t understand I usually ask for clarification.

You didn’t offend me. I just couldn’t resist the cheap shot!