how to add top posts to your blog

one of the coolest things you can do on your show your readers what your top posts are.  for that I use post rank and here is how you set it up:

1. go to the post rank website at http://www.postrank.com/publishers and choose your blogging platform from the get widget drop down (for these instructions I used blogger).
2. enter your blog's URL in the website: field (sometime it may take a while for it to index your blog)
   
3. choose the color scheme and the number of posts that your want to display
4. you can then click on add to blogger or copy the code onto your website

see, wasn't that easy!!

does blogging increase your SEO?

so, this question was posed to me a few months ago and I have been thinking about it and trying to put it into words ever since. I have tried unsuccessfully to find some articles and blog posts on the subject (if you have one, please put a link to it in a comment on this post). here are links to the two that I did find:

SEO Benefits Blog to Increase Your Search Engine Ranking

The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog

in my own words, this is how I understand it to work. blogging in and of itself does not increase your SEO, but blogging increases the number of words on your site and the frequency of updates to your site, both of which increase your SEO.