Blog Strategy
The Importance of Your Blogging Community
If you’ve been implementing a content marketing strategy for your business, you know one of the most important aspects of this online communication is the conversation it sparks between you and your followers. This relationship is the reason we do marketing at all. While it feels natural for this dialogue to happen on social media…
Read MoreBlogging: Make Search Engines Love You!
Create SEO friendly content and hone in on your keywords “What SEO keywords should I use?” has become a cubical question to ask in business blogging. We can no longer install a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugin and add an exhaustive list of words to every page of our blog. With each of Google’s releases…
Read More8 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid
Have you ever been on a company’s blog and found spelling and grammar mistakes? Links that don’t work? Formatting that made the article difficult to read? Not only does this create a negative image in the eyes’ of readers, but it often deters them from ever returning to your blog. Some of these errors are…
Read More5 Ways to Get More Out of Your Past Blog Articles
Content marketing is one of the best ways to get your opinions and ideas out there. Consumers naturally gravitate towards products and services that they can relate to; the more interesting or applicable to brand, the better! Content marketing is the super-highway of connecting your brand to your target market. One of the most affective…
Read MoreQuality Over Quanity: Why Blogging Less is Worth More
The old adage “less is more” can be applied to countless scenarios. Whether it’s content or slogans, one epic line is worth far more than a 100 mediocre ones. One of the basic truths in content marketing is that quality always wins over quantity. The reasoning is straightforward: high quality content is always more effective…
Read MoreBefore You Write, Here Are 5 Ways to Determine Your Next Blogging Topic
We’ve all experienced it, the dreaded writer’s block. No matter what you try to do, nothing seems to translate to the page. The same can happen when picking a blog topic. With so many different options and already conquered concepts, it can be difficult to choose something new to talk about. You’ve taken the first…
Read MoreWhy You Need a Good Blogging Blueprint!
If you have made the decision to implement a blog in your marketing strategy, that’s awesome! You’ve made the choice to help take your online presence to the next level. Your blog will provide you with an excellent outlet to leverage your expertise and increase traffic to your website. Any blog starts with establishing a…
Read MoreGuest Blogging: Adding to the Mix
You may already have in place a communications plan. In that plan, you may have already established what blog articles you are going to post and when. However, you may have someone interested in guest blogging or you may have come up with a new idea for an article that wasn’t scheduled in your plan.…
Read MoreThe Importance of Blogging and Your Brand
Blogs are more than just a way to share information you have learned. They play a big role in brand communication, as well. What you blog must be consistent with what you want your brand to represent. The content you decide to publish on your blog says a lot about your company. You don’t want…
Read MoreHow to Find the Right Images for Your Blog
With every blog comes at least one visual. Readers want to see images that are relative to your blog posts. However, knowing where you can obtain an image for your blog is more complicated than you might think. Many images found on the Internet are either copyrighted or protected, and using them can lead to…
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