<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16776499.post-114894464000728992</id><published>2006-05-29T16:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-29T16:17:20.020-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Business Blogging</title><content type='html'>There is no substitute for good content when it comes to blogging, so says Lee Odden is President of TopRank Online Marketing.  In a recent post “&lt;a href="http://www.isedb.com/db/articles/1449/"&gt;Optimization for Business Blogs'&lt;/a&gt; he lists 14 key points to think about to help bring your business blog up in the ranks where it is currently competing for eyeballs with more than an estimated 27 million new blogs a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His key points include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The importance of Keywords&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Optimizing your Template&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Using the blog post title as the permalink&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adding RSS and Feed buttons&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Optimizing your Categories&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adding the option of Social Bookmarking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ping, Trackbacks and Comments&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Submitting your blog to directories&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Link Building&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;RSS to Email&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Blog analytics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Offsite Tracking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;This is just a quick overview of his points; to really understand what and why these are the key points read his post &lt;a href="http://www.isedb.com/db/articles/1449/"&gt;Optimization for Business Blogs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16776499-114894464000728992?l=seoforblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoforblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/114894464000728992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16776499&amp;postID=114894464000728992&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16776499/posts/default/114894464000728992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16776499/posts/default/114894464000728992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoforblogs.blogspot.com/2006/05/business-blogging.html' title='Business Blogging'/><author><name>ColoGuy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12714441518896508665</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14480673047566351974'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></entry>