The reason that Google and Yahoo! like featuring content-heavy websites is because the web surfers that actually go to their search engine screens to look for relevant content will keep coming back if they like the sites that Google and Yahoo! send them to. So, in a way you are actually helping Google as well as your own self-interest when you supply Google with the most relevant keyword descriptions possible.
Google makes millions of dollars every month by featuring Google ads on their main site pages that want to advertise directly to the web surfers who use relevant keyword searches, so make sure your keyword definitions for your site are as relevant as possible. Otherwise, Google will never give you the high page ranking that your site deserves, which will cause future website traffic to your site to dry up as quickly as a prune left out in the sun too long.
YOUR BLOG MUST BE PERCEIVED AS A PERFECT WAY FOR YOUR WEB VIEWERS TO GET UP-TO-DATE INFO
You have to be sure all of your blog content is current and up to date on your site’s main subject topics or future web visitors will think you have put no effort at all into your website, so why should they bother bookmarking your out-of-date blog site?
Just because you happen to know everything about your blog’s subject matter and topics does not mean that your site visitors know anything about them, so treat them as people that need to be educated on your blog’s topics at all times so your future website traffic to your site will be huge.
Optimize all of your content-heavy web pages by updating your keyword density and making sure that all of your site’s blog titles and article subject headings are in bold. Along with applying that SEO technique, you need to be sure that your website pages contain all of your most popular and relevant keyword phrases as much as possible. This way, your success as an online entrepreneur/blog writer will become a reality.
Rob I agree with you, but I must say that there is a very fine line between writing for SEO and writing for your readers.
It's a fine line to write for both your reader and the search engines. Ultimately your reader needs to make a connection, so I thinking leaning more to the reader is appropriate for a blog.
You need to be cautious of promoting your blogs only for traffic. If you cross the line your loyal visitors will think you've crossed over. I do agree though you need to have catchy, bold, creative titles. Your content must be rich with well grammar and spelling. Adding a few keywords here and there (maximum of 7?) will also push your blog in SERPs.
This topic lends itself to controversy because most blog writers create their personal blogs from pure passion, which is something they should be writing with at all times. On the other hand, you always need to get your blog out there in competition with the millions of other sites that deal with the same subject matter as your blog site does. You have to write with certain keywords in your content or you might as well be writing your blog on an old typewriter and then throwing your pages in the trash because no one will ever read your content if Google is never going to promote your blog pages.
I've always found the best way to get google coming back to your blog as well as it being unique is to update it regularly which (if it's a personal blog or something your passionate about) you should be doing anyway.