Yes and No.

The good news? We've experienced strong search engine rankings from blogging on our own projects, and many members have shared their improved results from blogging too. Blogging seems to have the sweet spot with the search engines in getting them to come to your site in a hurry, grab the content on your site and index it in their databases.

Why does it work so well? I believe the 'special sauce' why can be traced back to Wordpress ® and how its designed.

Wordpress ® offers features that automatically update blog directories and search engines of your new pages or entries. This encourages these software 'robots' to come crawling your new content and including them in their databases. This speeds up your indexing in a flash compared to waiting on Google, MSN or Yahoo to take their own sweet time to come to your website.

In addition, Wordpress ® is programmed in such a way that delivers your text content to the search engines the way they like it - here's an acronym for you... RSS - defined as Real Simple Syndication. This is a text language that makes it easy for the search engines to grab your content, and at the same time offering your visitors the capability to read your blog at their favorite blog reader.

There are numerous case studies of members and clients achieving boosts in their positioning results after blogging with Wordpress ®, and maintaining their positioning in the major search engines.

The above features are a sample of why your Wordpress ® blog trumps a traditional website.

However, the bad news is Wordpress ® is just a platform and a tool.

In order for you to achieve top rankings, there are other strategies, techniques, tips and best practices you can deploy to your Wordpress ® blog to assist you in achieving top positioning.

These best practices are shared in our WordpressTutorials.com forums and in some of our videos.

Bottom line? Blogging can greatly help your website 'put its best foot forward' in achieving top rankings in the major search engines.

Whether you're considering achieving top positioning for a family website, a community website, a not-for-profit website, or a business website, a blog can make your job easier, and most times - better and faster.

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