Cameron Olthuis

Merlin Mann has a good post on 5 ways to get on del.icio.us homepage. If I ever write anything good enough I’ll have to give it a try.

For those of you who don’t know what del.icio.us is click here.

I’ve been seeing it more and more lately, creating a blog soley to increase the search engine rankings for a website. This is a great example of blogging for the wrong reasons.

In this post on the High Rankings Forum someone stated the following…

..the reason for me to have a blog on is to improve my rankings (on the bottom line) i dont think it has to do anything with what my site is about (correct me if im wrong)

a few posts later the same individual replied…

and i heard that blogs and rss are the hot stuff regarding seo.

I think most people fail to realize that you shouldn’t be adding to your website just for seo purposes. This goes for anything, not just blogs. If it isn’t in the best interest of your site visitors then forget about it!

So what are the right reasons? Read the rest of this entry »