Blogs have no special powers of high rankings. What they do have (if done correctly) is fresh, unique content. Search engines do tend to like that, regardless of the format. If they know any given site is adding new articles on a frequent basis, they will come around often to index it. Blogs are certainly one way of easily adding new information to your site.

This is probably one of the most common SEO-related questions. There are several causes, which might prevent your site from showing up in the search results. Your website is not optimize for search engines. You need SEO.

• Backlinks: a link to a site is seen as a vote for that site. The more links a page gets, the better. Links from domains with a high authority are more valuable.
• On-page factors: such as the title of the page, formatting, content, images and so on.
• Domain age: as a rule of thumb; older is better.
• Update frequency: frequently posting new articles or updating pages generally has a positive effect.

Long tail keywords comes from very specific keywords. So instead of ‘Tuxedo Rentals’ (short tail keyword), you get traffic from ‘Tuxedo Rentals in Orange County’ (long tail). Long tail traffic has less competition than traffic from short tail keywords.

Search engines have trouble reading certain content types (images, video’s, flash). A search engine friendly design is a website that can easily be crawled and indexed.