Making Money with Your Blog!

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Just over 6 weeks ago I set up a couple of new blogs. With one of these blogs I intentionally did not build in any links at all to the blog. I used blogger to set up the blog and allowed blogger to send pings. So Google would be aware of the site, but what would happen?

I've posted to the blog two to three times per week, using a mixture of articles and my own thoughts. Since then I've watched what pages Google has been showing and when it has cached them.

At the same time I also ran another blog, posted to at exactly the same time as the first blog and using the exact same micture of articles / new content. The only difference has been that this second blog has been linked to from a few other websites and blogs.

So what is the difference between them? Basically, the site with links has over half of the posts cached, which isn't brilliant. But then it's not posted to often. But on the whole, Google is caching the site about weekly.

But the first site, the one without any links, is hardly visited by Google. Since the day it went live Google has had the home page cached and quickly cached a couple of posts. For the first week the sites were treated pretty much the same. But within 3 weeks the linked site had a lot more pages cached and the difference has grown.

Now, 7 weeks since first posting and first link building to the second site, there is a massive difference. The none linked to site has not been cahced for 6 weeks, whereas the linked site has been cached within the week, and this seems to continue.

So there is a massive difference in how your site is treated depending on how many links you have incoming. Google may know about your site, but if the links aren't good, it's going to ignore you! So link building is not a total waste of time. It's not just about letting the search engines know that you exists, it's about convincing them that you are worth their processing time and getting them to visit the site to view and store updates.

Keep building links in, just make them good links.

Keith Lunt runs several successful internet marketing sites. You can contact him through http://www.janric.co.uk or follow the experiment in his daily blog.