Optimum Blog Placement?

[schoolboy]

Schoolboy, are you telling me that if a visitor goes in my front door, and likes what he sees, and clicks on my blog button on my homepage that is directed to my blogspot address, that is good enough.

Essentially, yes... if a visitor can get to your blog via a link, then so can Google.

And I don't have to mess with migrating to Wordpress to get the /blog suffix?

Wordpress, as a platform, is VERY search engine friendly. And there are a number of plugins and widgets you can use to enhance that search engine friendliness. Google really likes wordpress (technically) and it is very easy to manage a wordpress blog. We use wordpress for a lot of "showcase" sites (those that are not eCommerce) and disable the blogging features - and we use it for normal blogging.

You could "consider" another blog in wordpress... and you can even install it in a sub-directory on your webshop server. (As Steve has done).

I "think" that's what you are saying. You are so wise, and thank you so much for always answering my amateurish questions! Sometimes I even embarrass myself asking them.

There are no "amatuerish" questions... the forum is intended to be a place to ask questions.

And the questions you ask, yes, I am trying to keep content fresh, and my site is easy to navigate, it loads quickly, and there are no broken links. I even have a pretty decent bounce rate in Google analytics.

I'm doing okay, Schoolboy, I'm showing up in Google, I'm getting several orders a week now, I'm just going to continue on and work my site daily, from all I read, perserverance is the key. This has been quite a journey, and it's never over, I've learned. You have to keep working this like any job you do.

Thanks again for your help, I so appreciate it.

Are you making use of other Google tools and Apps? (Webmaster Tools, Google Shopping, Maps.. etc)

Are you generating and submitting xml sitemaps?