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[anilg]

I do not know whether I am asking something silly. What I have analyzed is that it’s very difficult to get good ranking for the competitive keywords on google and yahoo in case of blogs. I mean to say that Blog sites rarely get high ranking for the good keywords on google. You may rarely find a blog on top for the big keywords. But when you go to msn search, you will see a lot of blogs getting good ranking for the big keywords. I do not know what I have analyzed is true or not.

If its true then could anybody let me what is the reason for this partiality. I am really get confused by all this.

[qwerty]

I don't think that's correct. I know of blogs that rank well for numerous keyword phrases, some competitive, some not. If the blogs you're looking at are doing well on MSN and not Google, I would suggest that the blogs in question are young and/or don't have many backlinks.

If you look at well-established blogs, you'll find that they do as well as any site, regardless of whether it's a blog or not.

Keep in mind that the term "blog" is a pretty loose one. Does it mean a site that displays articles in reverse-chronological order? They don't all do that. Does it mean a site that uses Blogger, MT, WordPress, or some other blog software? They don't all do that. Does it mean a site that accepts comments and trackbacks? They don't all do that.

Since the term can't really be nailed down, I don't see how or why a search engine's algo would be set to discount such sites.

[ACpeter]

We don't use or have a 'blog' per se, but we do have a CMS system where we add a lot of content that helps with search engines. We're using Article Manager. In order to support SEO, we created a link from the home page to a 'Site Map'. That site map provides a static link to each article with the topic or subject in the link text. We're getting excellent results and it's a relatively new site.

Depending on the software and the set up, and if it's a dynamic site, you may find making those static links help. In fact, in some of our shopping carts that are php, they get crawled and rank well, but believe it or not, the site map page with static links get equal footing in the search too! So does it help? I would say the proof is in the eatin', no?

Hope this helps!

[Jill]

Blogs are web pages just like any other, and as such, they have the same likelihood (or lack thereof) of ranking highly for any given keyword phrase.