Thursday, June 7, 2012

4 Business Blogging Best Practices

The following blogging for business tips and best practices will help entrepreneurs and small business owners get more traffic to their business website.

* Content Is King - The internet is full of content: audio, video, text, and images. How much of this content is yours? By writing a daily business blog post and then syndicating this blog post via social network sites and by making videos about the post etc. you can get much more traffic from each piece of content. The key is to commit to continuously creating content for your business blog and then submit this to as many different online platforms as possible.

* Local Keyword Research - As a small business owner ranking on Google can often be easier because you are targeting local keywords which are often lower competition than major generic keywords. But you can also attract even more traffic by targeting numerous longtail keyword variations. So instead of just targeting "Business Blogging New York" you could target "Best Business Blogging Tips In New York" which will be easier to rank for on Google. Much of the traffic that you will receive to your business blog is not from a main two phrase keyword, but from many different variations of that keyword. Probably many obscure searches that you would have not considered before.

* Social Media Marketing Strategies For Small Business - For each blog post that you write, share it via Facebook and Twitter and encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same. In Twitter many people will come across the content by keywords that they have told Twitter to alert them about. So be sure to include relevant hashtags in your tweets for each blog post. Also, it is a good idea to "share the love" and share the content that other businesses in your area post to their blog and they will be more likely to return the favor.

* Blog Writing Speed - The quickest way to write blog posts is to write about what you know. That way the information is already in your head and little research is required. Just let the words flow onto the page as though you were speaking the tips aloud to one of your friends. Just put down what is in your mind and don't worry about errors. You can tidy it up afterwards. This blog speed writing method literally means you can write a post within a matter of minutes. If you can write fast blog posts you can post more often and get more traffic.

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