Trouble With Blogger Labels

Blogger has problems with publishing when you have a lot of labels on your blog. In fact if you have more than 30 or so labels, get ready to pull your hair out or have over an hour to publish your posts or even have inconsistent publishing.

I have found from personal experience that it is better to use your labels for top keywords and as blog navigation. Just don't get in the habit of creating a new label for every post. Routinely we keep our bloggers set with about 10 to 20 keywords and ask them to post to these labels only for their blog posts.

One this keeps blogger from getting label bloated and keeps publishing snappy. The other thing is that by assigning labels for your bloggers you control the focus of the posts for search engine optimization.

As labels are also used for additional content navigation, we also recommend that on every blog a search engine function to be installed so that visitors can review content in an easier fashion. It seems that you could do this with Blogger labels, but once you have a bloated blog and sit for hours for publishing you will understand the wisdom of controlling the number of labels on your blog.

A New Blog to Check Out

Click our post title to visit on of the blogs that we are ghost blogging for. This blog is for Parker Web Marketing.

Written in a question and answer approach this blog takes on some of the important topics that website owners in the know should be aware of. Working closely with the Parker Web Marketing team, we get your questions answered and even highlight important issues for making sure that your website is the best that it can be.

Huge Interest in Ghost Blogging

I've sure noticed that in the last month we've had a significant increase in interest in our ghost blogging services and added many new clients at several different blogging levels. It is suddenly as if the light bulb went off that blogging will really help your site visibility and give customers something of value on your website.

I've been blogging for over three years and my blogging started out as just light weight posts like a diary. Now blogging is serious business for us and other as well as just one of the techniques that main stream search engine optimizers are using to help push website up in the organic rankings.

The other key interest that I have seen from site owners is the desire to offer something tangible to their viewers that differentiates them from their competition, the ability to connect with customers and readers in a very easy way, and a new way to push their products and services without an "in-your-face" marketing program.

If you have ever blogged for any period of time, you know that after the "blush is off the rose", consistent blogging is hard work. You have to make a real commitment to your blog readers to post three or more days a week. It is easy to push the schedule aside and say that you'll post another time.

This is where our value lies, when you want the tangible benefits of blogging without the grueling schedule, new ideas when you've been tapped out, or simply a fresh approach written by professional writers, our ghost blogging services may be a good match for you.

McCord Web Design Quoted in Investor's Business Daily

Today in the Thursday May 10th print issue as well as in the online issue. Nancy McCord of McCord Web Design was quoted in an article on ghost blogging.

You can click our blog post title to read the full article online. The article appearing in the Internet & Technology section is titled "Writing Blogs Can Be So Hard, So Get Help" by Tony Kontzer.

I think that you'll find the interviews by Nancy McCord and several others on the topic of using blogs for business and hiring a ghost blogger interesting reading.

New Ghost Blogging Pricing and Options

We've just posted our new ghost blogging pricing and options. Of note is our choice of new blog set up options; Custom FTP Set Up, Blogspot Set Up with a Custom Domain, and Blogspot Set Up.

We've also dropped our five day a week blogging service. It is simply too draining for us to blog cost effectively at our low prices five days a week without an additional research time charge.

We've added a new program for confidential executive ghost blogging that is quoted on a job basis.

Our prices have not increased much, but we have added some new services such as monthly Google Sitemaps for your blog, Google Analytics installation for blogs just to name two. Click the post title to review all our new details.

Blogging for Organic Search Placement?

Question: Can you prove that blogging will improve my organic search placement?

Answer: That is very difficult to quantify for a website and is part of an overall strategy for organic page placement. Google alone has over 150 different factors that it uses to determine page rank so there is no one answer that I could give you that would say "blog and move up 10 positions on Google."

What I do know is that blogging adds content to your site on a regular basis which keeps search engine spiders coming back, blogging when done on keywords provides ways for visitors to enter your site through blog posts and then into your website, blogging as it adds the the number of pages on a narrow topic for your site over time adds authority to your site which is one of Google's evaluating site factor for page rank.

Wish there was a magic formula to say yes, we can prove that blogging will help you get to the number one spot, but honestly no one can say that. It is a good practice policy that speaks to many of the elements that improve your page rank on Google and the other search engines, but will it help YOU move up, that depends on many factors, your marketplace, your keywords you are targeting, your current site, your overall strategy, your current content freshness, spiderability of your current web site, your current site's performance in the organic SERPs.

What we do know from historical data is that traffic does improve from a special case study that we have done and that sites that do blog will have a higher traffic level than sites that do not. We know that blogs add to the stickiness factor of a site, and we know that blogs feed the search engine the content and some of the parameters that they are specifically looking for when they determine page rank.

For you, you may want to consider doing a three month test on your site to evaluate if blogging works for your market and viewers and builds your traffic and site over time. Blogging is considered an organic help and organic placement of a site by its very nature is not a quick fix but a long-term process. You will find that most Search Engine Optimization companies are recommending a blog as part of an overall strategy for improvement.

Your question may be a good one for a white paper, but has one been done that I can point you to - not that I can find on Google. You may want to do further research on blogs on the Web to identify if a blog is right for your needs.

Ghost Blogging Services

Thinking about getting into blogging? We can make it easy with our ghost blogging services. Now you can blog only when you feel like it. We'll keep up the frequency to get you organic placement and take the pressure off of you so you can write only when you want to and only on the topics you love.

We have three level of ghost blogging services. Click the post title to go to our services page.

I was just recently interviewed by Tony Kontzer for Investors Business Daily for an article on executive ghost blogging. When they let me know that the article has been published, I will post a link to it. They tell me that the article will be available online for a limited period and then available only to subscribers in the archive.

The article will speak to how should executives handle ghost blogging, what are their responsibilities in working with the ghost blogger, what should the blogger be doing, and how effective and widespread is ghost blogging use. I think that it will be an interesting piece.

Ghost blogging is hot and executive ghost blogging a well know secret in the industry. If you are ready to let go of your current blog because you are simply too busy, have had good intentions about blogging but have not kept up the frequency, we can step in and easily take over.

Blogging can be great fun, but if you are busy, it can become a real chore and one that you can start to dread. We'll can make blogging easy for you with our popular ghost blogging service.