Since SEO and organic search favors older links, I started the blog for my startup before I even started coding! I'm still very early on so I can't report any

Since SEO and organic search favors older links, I started the blog for my startup before I even started coding! I'm still very early on so I can't report any results, but if you write blog entries that are more useful than anything else, people will find them. But it takes time and LOTS of writing (see Paul Graham, Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky, Reg Braithwaite, etc). Little mediocre posts get quickly lost and forgotten because they're not worth pointing out (see Steve Yegge's latest post). SEO prominence comes not from what words you put in your posts but from content good enough that other people link to you. Become prominent! (there, that's enough armchair quarterbacking)