That said, I think one of the reasons I’m still posting somewhat strong on my main blog, but again as I’ll always say. I post about nothing specific. A person may love the topic he writes about, but hits a dry spot. I write a wine review blog. I noticed I had a bit over a month break in posts (usually posts about weekly). The reason? I had been drinking more beer. I couldn’t of filled the dead point with meaningless posts and expected my readers (what few there are) to go ok… I don’t mind. In the same way… I can go all over on my main blog, and I get replies back saying they love the variety.

My point? If you find a dry spell, fill it with relevant content. Revisit and old idea/post. Does it still work, do you need to correct yourself. Do a follow up post. Or mention a parallel topic, that may still interest your readers, but it may not be exactly locked in on your main topic (but make sure you mention how it is similar unless you are doing a Lorelle).

I was doing a little summary of the blogsearch ranking factors for my site’s SEO FAQ section (including links to the article on it at Problogger and to Bill Slawski’s analysis at SEO by the Sea). One of the things the patent says is that it might penalize sites for having different RSS than what’s on their blog content. This because the indexing of blogs for blogsearch goes through RSS and thus you could cloak your spammy blog by just showing different stuff in the RSS. The point being that there can be penalties for having a different feed and blog content

Now, while I doubt as trustworthy and well SEO-ed (nice redesign and text navigation by the way) a site as Technosailor could get hit for that, do you think it’s advidable for smaller, lesser known blogs to do that? On a related note, could you try and pass the question on to Matt Cutts? I figure someone as well known as you has an in or two…

Regards,
Gabriel Goldenberg
p.s. Let me know what you think of my blogsearch ranking factors summary and analysis.