Blogging in a Yola website is an easy setup and despite some minor drawbacks a very good system and appeals to Google blogs bots. This of course depends on content but inclusion in the Google index is often within the hour.

Some bloggers are concerned that there is no facility for keywords and from my experience this simply doesn't matter. A good descriptive title with a follow on text re-inforcing the title or rather the title re-inforcing the content allows for accuracy in both on-site searches and SE searches. The use of categories and tags to a large extent act as keywords. This certainly suggests that the system is able to deliver to the downstream services information that allows searchers to find stuff on your site.

The comment system as mentioned by Yola techs is below par. This is in part due to the fact that the comment facility can't be seen until you actually select a post even though a complete post maybe seen. This does cause many readers confusion. A way out of this is to give a brief instruction on your page of the method of accessing the commentary sytem. This is very much a compromise as an experienced blog reader won't expect to have to read instructions for commenting and is likely to overlook this.

The most commonly used commenting system by Yola bloggers is the Disqus sytem. An excellent and very powerful facility which is easy to log into and has many options. The problem is with the Disqus installation. Unfortunately the instructions are simply wrong and this has been the cse for the last three revisions.  The number of queries hitting the forum on this is very high and some users give up in frustration instead installing simple HTML comment boxes, a system which will offer nothing wrt SEO, and the ability to get the comments out to a broader audience.

Recently Facebook has made available facilities  to install on websites and blogs. The "Like" facility is almost a signature of Facebook and one which is familiar to millions of people. There is also a "Comments" which works well for blog posts. It is more familiar than Disqus simply because it's Facebook and more responses are noted in the Facebook comment facility than the Disqus facility. The comment is left on your blog and subsequent follow-ons display as a thread. The comments also go onto your wall of your Facebook page and subsequently to the walls of your "Friends" this then has a secondary viral effect which the Disqus system doesn't have.

For people who are tossing up the whole blog comment issue I would suggest considering Facebook for the reasons mentioned.