Thank you for the great info. I didn’t know and will hop on over to your blog and get the scoop.

Angela

Just making my rounds and spying on what other students are up to on their blogs

Very nice layout here. I really like it.

I do have one comment which is somewhat unrelated to your post here, but is when concerning with organic traffic from search engines.

Your blog permalinks are not set up properly.

For example:

Your urls are reading like this right now

blog.com/?p=123

When ideally it should read like so:

blog.com/hello-world/

Why concern yourself with this?

Well, when someone finds your post or site within the search engines and they see the url of your post – it looks iffy. I cannot tell what the post is about based on the structure and also search engines would be more apt to index your page or site if the structure is better.

Also, in addition to that is the most important factor with a nice structure which is ranking ability. By inserting keywords into your post, the search engines can use that to help your post rank better – which in turn translated into more traffic in the end.

I would highly recommend changing this asap.

But since you have quite a few posts made here on your blog already, maybe some of these are indexed in engines. If so, then you’ll need to be a little careful.

I have created an ebook titled BlogFU which can be downloaded on my blog which lays out how to setup permalinks ( as well as many other things ) and also what to do in your situation if posts are already indexed prior to your permalink configuration.

Cheers,
Colin
http://www.marketingwithcolin.com