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Blogs are like puppies
If you missed my webinar you can watch the video either on YouTube or in this slide deck:
Here are some of my main points:
Like puppies 
blogs are a lot of fun but they require a lot of work and attention. Blogging with quality is likely the most time consuming content marketing activity for most of us.
“My customers don’t read blogs” is one of the most common ones I hear and I can tell you from experience that it often feels like it! And if you ask your customers they will often not even be aware that they read a blog post. After all articles on blogs are just information and that is what we read.
So, should we be blogging for business?
Yes, and here is why:
Blogging establishes trust in you, your company and the goods and services you offer. If you use your blog consistently and regularly you can establish yourself as a (local) trusted authority in your field. By sharing relevant information with your website visitors you can become the go-to authority in your field.
Think about it: If I find your information useful I am much more likely to buy from you rather than looking for another source. Wouldn’t you agree?
Blogging creates content you will be found for.
Many businesses spend a considerable amount in pay-per-click ads and SEO agencies to make sure their content get found sooner than their competitors’. At the same time search engines strive to give us the best search results so we continue using their tool.
By creating more quality relevant to our audience we provide more opportunities to be found in a keyword search and therefore create more organic search engine optimization. Every search algorithm update favours this type of SEO over more artificial means of being found. Soon content will be the only ranking factor left. Better start building content now!
One of the biggest mistakes I see web developers and brands make is building a website and linking an external blog to it as an afterthought. In these cases you click on a link in the website and are led to a separate blog often on a free blogging platform like Blogger or WordPress.com.
The effect is this: If you follow my advice and blog consistent quality content you will get more traffic to your blog. At the same time the content on your website is static and even loses search ranking over time. Even the occasional link from your blog posts to your website can’t really make up for this.
So most of those blog visitors you work so hard to attract will not get to see your offers or company information. The most important piece of advice I have for you:
There are many more benefits to blogging and I encourage you to spend the time watching my webinar recording. There is way more to this topic than can be mentioned in an hour but I hope it gets you started. You can find a lot more articles about blogging for business in the list below this post.
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Source: http://businessbluebird.com/blogging-for-business/ Popular Today in Social: All Popular Articles Blogs are like puppies. Getting one seems like such a great idea. You get one, and reality takes hold. You're left amazed at how much work, time, and attention they take up. So should you blog? If you are looking to boost your blog's visibility in search, you will need to invest in some powerful SEO tools for research and management of your search marketing campaign. The following are some of the best tools (free and premium) that you can use to help optimize your blog for search. Click here if you can't see the video interview with Stanford Smith of Pushing Social. I recently had a chance to catch up with Stanford Smith, one of the best social media marketing minds in the business and certainly the go-to-guy for all things blogging.
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