Tag Archive: blog content

Top 4 SEO Tips for Small Business Blogs on a Shoestring Budget

Tweet The Search Engine Optimization landscape has changed dramatically over the last couple of years. One of the side-effects of these changes has been the fact that many low-cost SEO tactics have lost their effectiveness and power. Consequently, a lot of small businesses and professionals today are struggling to achieve their SEO goals on a…

Your Business Blog:
Guest Blogging Etiquette

Tweet Last month, we contributed a post asking if guest blogging is really a necessary element to a good blog. The answer was a pretty resounding “yes.” In light of that, I thought I should elaborate on a few tips for how to be a good guest blogger. First, reciprocal guest blogging can be a…

Engage Your Blog Readers with Meaty Content

Tweet You already know that, “Content is King” on the Internet, but great content is what helps you build a community of loyal blog readers who buy from you. Your goal should be to engage blog readers with the highest quality content you can muster, with absolutely no fluff. There is far too much garbage…

Guest Blogging: Just How Important Is It?

Tweet Having guest bloggers post content for your blog can be a great tool to get more readers to visit your site. Typically, guest blogging involves a good deal of cross-promotion, which can be beneficial for all parties involved. Guest blogging has recently become much more common, likely because bloggers are seeing the good things…

7 Content Marketing Questions to Ask
BEFORE You Write a Word

Tweet Here are some key marketing questions to ask and answer before you write a single word of content, if you want to get good content marketing results. When you outsource writing for your blog, newsletter, video or any type of content marketing, be very clear about your content marketing goals. In fact, it doesn’t…

When Should You Start a New Business Blog?

Tweet When should you start a new business blog? Let’s face it, publishing frequently on a business blog is time consuming. Depending on how swift your writing and blogging skills are, it can take you 1-2 hours to publish a post of 350-500 words, including the writing, editing, linking, adding an image, and updating social…

Bloggers: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills

Tweet Business bloggers: just how good are your writing skills? Most bloggers and those who run small businesses that publish blogs are not natural-born writers, or even trained writers. Most businesspeople studied things such as marketing, communication, or business. It’s not often they’ve studied English or creative writing. Yet it’s becoming expected that businesses have…

Oscar Wilde: Advice on Better Blogging

Tweet You know that your blog is a key part of your search strategy, but do you know how to get the most out of it?  What would Oscar Wilde advise for better blogging? Thousands of blog guides exist, but do they really help or just cloud the issue further? This is what you need…

Online Content Marketing: Let’s Put the “We” Back Into Weblog

Tweet I get calls from small business professionals who want to start a blog or an e-newsletter. They’ve usually invested money in a nice website, and then suddenly realize that something’s missing… like customers and leads! They’re genuinely surprised that with the money they spent on their website, no one is coming to see it,…

4 Common Blog Writing Stumbling Blocks

Tweet There are many reasons to have a business blog but the most important is that it’s great for retaining clients and customers. Business blogs offer insights into your services, product updates, and compelling relevant content that solves the problems of your clients. However, blog writing can be tougher than you might think. It’s important…