When I do a search, I find that I have pretty good rankings through sites and forums that I participate in. The only problem is that it is through their site.

For instance, if you type my city and EIFS inspector into the  browser box, different blogs that I have written show up, but it links to me (or the blog) through the forum/site address. This is somewhat ok, but I feel that clients my become disinterested and not look for the link to contact me.

I see that other entities have similar blogs but it links directly to their web site.

How can I start my own blog so that it will link/show my own web site address?

Dom,

I don't quite understand what all of that means, when I read it it looks like this:

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Please tell me when I can start building my site with you, that auto blog feature sounds much easier.

kewl

The My Blog link only you see, like My Account. Two things that should be in the admin panel but I've wanted to move but had a hard time due to their integration into the system. Only you can see those links when logged in.

The link you want enabled is called Blogs. You might had disabled it, go back to menus and enable it. You can rename it too.

To see what the user sees, logout.

Steven,

Your blog serves many roles.

1. The more pages on your site, the more weight is has with Google. They feel a 50 page site is more relevant than a 1 page site (how relevant can a one page site hold right?)

2. Your blog should be filled with your keywords, get in city names, 'home inspector' / 'home inspections', etc. Having more keywords on your page makes your site overall more relevant for those terms.

3. The page itself will show up on Google eventually and can even show high up in the rankings as your sites ranking itself grows.

4. Your blogs broadcast an RSS feed which are picked up by RSS sites that will link back to your site.

5. People read the blogs, find you're an interesting person and hire you.

Yup, the more the merrier

Hey Bill,

Nice job By default the comments are set to need to be approved before posting. Click on th comments link in the admin menu to see if any are in the queue.

Dominic