Google and Yahoo, and MSN are all indexing blogs with a new sophistication and intensity than ever before.
Yahoo and MSN have both made their RSS Readers available thru their personalized services of my.yahoo.com and my.msn.com. Indicating that they are paying attention to rss/blog feeds.
Just like it has been known by many SEO Companies in the know, that the registration forms at the various engines are all but worthless. That in fact the engines follow other links to your site index your site.
Now, it appears they are at least on a small level using these personalized RSS Readers to find good content. It is theorized that these readers are behaving like little voting machines for the various websites. Much like the theory behind Google's Page Rank.
Well now Google is offering their own personalized RSS service. Well, not really. It is a bookmark service on their personalized Google.
However, Google has a new service in beta , that is available both at google.com/blogsearch and search.blogger.com. Google blog search scans content posted to blogs and feeds in virtually real-time, according to Jason Goldman, Google product manager for blog search.
It is time to Blog folks.
If you would like to know how to get your blogs into these services go to this link for a free tutorial.
Blogging, in my opinion, is absolutely essential to success, whether you are selling homes or condos in Chicago, Las Vegas, or any other city.
Blogs must be updated in a timely fashion, and must be rich in content.
Blog it, and they will come!
Posted by: Koenig and Strey Chicago MLS Search | October 9, 2005 at 04:24 PM