Are we so blinded by the SEO of blogs that we forget the basics?

There’s no doubt that people, entrepreneurs, teenagers and even corporations are stepping up and joining the growing blog craze over the last couple of years.

Sure, some not so serious bloggers, like MySpacers, just blog to blog and add friends to their list. Basically, they are interested in building up social networks.

Yet, others are truly after gaining the essence of the Search Engine Optimization – SEO – powers of a blog and realizing the potential of gaining traffic from just adding content to their site through a blog post.

However, most individuals, business owners, entrepreneurs are blindly blogging without realizing that they still have to do the initial planning to make the built-in SEO components of the blog.

Filling your blog with content is great, but are you focusing your efforts in the planning stages of each blog post you write? What is the strategy you take before you post?

Are you just going about getting an idea — or taking an update about your website and then blindly blogging about it without attempting to target a specific spot on the net?

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