Business blogging: Is it right for you?
Marketing your business takes a lot of time and energy, and many people wonder whether business blogging can really benefit a marketing plan. The short answer (and the long one) is yes! Business blogging can generate immediate and long-term benefits for your company. Here’s how it works.
4 reasons to consider business blogging
Blogging generates traffic. Blogging does more than just provide a creative outlet for your business! It generates traffic by taking advantage of the way search engines work. Each blog post you publish gets indexed individually in the search engine results. Business blogging gives you the opportunity to publish new pages regularly, and focus on different keywords and timely subjects that can help get your site ranked well.
Blogging generates interest. Blogging can improve the overall performance of your website by bringing in people who are interested in the products and services you sell. People who are already interested in what your business does are more likely to revisit your site and more likely to buy something from your site than people who see advertising for your site.
Blogging keeps on working. Blog pages stay in the search engines results and people find them over time. Some posts age better than others, but you can develop a little army of blog posts that soldier on, bringing traffic to your website for weeks, months or even years after publication. That helps to improve the search engine ranking on that post, and also helps to improve the visibility of your website.
Blogging is inexpensive. Blogging doesn’t cost a lot of money, and it produces steady results over time. Whether you write your own material or have a professional writer create content for you, business blogging costs next to nothing and produces a long-term benefit for your business.
If you’d like more information about business blogging and how it can work for your business, please contact our Creative Director, Dave Ramsell or give Dave a call at (330) 243-0651 to set up a consultation.
Photo Credit: zizzy0104, via FreeImages.com
