Does Blogging helps in boosting Search Engine Traffic?

Of course YES. Answer to this question is simple.
As you may have heard that, Search Engines like fresh content. This is true. Blogs are informative, interactive and dynamic websites, where you can find good amount of content on various industries, topics and ideas posted by blog users. This makes blogs updated so often that they rank higher on search engines particularly Google.
So, you can start your own blog, throw good topics of discussion or some informative material useful to your targeted visitors and then encourage them to visit your website on similar topics or to know about your website & offerings. Also, one can receive comments or feedback to your postings from blog visitors/groups.
Another important thing that make these blogs so special are most of today’s popular blogs are designed search engine friendly and possess good features like RSS feeds, receiving email alerts on new postings, supports customization on look & feel, insert plugins etc.

Some well known blogs are
• http://blogspot.com/ (BlogSpot)
• http://wordpress.com/ (WordPress)
• http://blog.com (Blog)
• http://blogsavy.com/ (BlogSavy)
• http://www.xanga.com/ (Xanga)