Do you block free traffic?

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Everyone would like free traffic for keywords or key phrases related to their websites.  If someone searches on google, the results that turns up on the main body of the page, is free traffic, not paid traffic as on the sides and at the top with PPC (Pay per click) campaigns.

For your website to appear in the free search traffic, it has to be indexed by Google’s spiders or robots.  It can only do so if your site does not block it!

Generally speaking most blogs would be search engine friendly, including your own blog.  Sharing a domain name or using a forwarded domain is usually not open to search engines.  (Subdomains listed on known blogs are OK, such as mywebsite.blogspot.com).

It is recommended that you get your own domain name with your own hosted blog software solutions, such as Wordpress which you can usually just setup from your hosting control panel. This way you manage all the risk as you are in control of your domain name.

To ensure that you are not blocking Google access to index your website, use this helpful tool to analyze your website:  WebPageAnalyzer

 

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