5 Ways to Improve Your Business Blog

22 March, 2011 5:47 pm | Posted by Ben Norman

business blog attached to your site is a great way to build a regular feed of quality content, which in turn helps you to improve rankings and develop links naturally. But you knew that already, didn’t you?

However, what you might not know is how to take it to the next level once you’ve created your blog. Well, to help you on your way here are five quick tips on getting more from your business blog:

1) Keep creating quality content

Quality content is a bit of a flaky term, but essentially I am relating to posts that really add some level of value to your blog and company as a whole. A useful instructional article, an opinion piece on the latest industry news or major news from within your company are a great place to start.

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Fishing for Link Bait

11 May, 2010 4:21 pm | Posted by Ben Norman

One of the most positive methods of earning links is by creating great content. Whether you’ve created a barnstorming blog post or developed an addictive application; if people enjoy what you have to offer, they will link to you.

This is very much a natural and often viral way of developing your link profile. Unfortunately, it is often quite challenging too.

Sometimes people try too hard to create something exceptional. They do away with usual time constraints and invest in one blog post or java game. Of course this is fine when it works, perfect in fact, but when it doesn’t you won’t get any return on your initial investment. This is far from being a rare occurrence.
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Want Free Links? Get Free Links

7 April, 2010 2:58 pm | Posted by Ben Norman

There’s a strange assumption that SEO is somehow a complicated, expensive process. The truth is that it is as complicated as you make it and you can spend what you want.

Don’t become sidetracked by the promise of exceptional wealth as a result of splurging your cash left right and centre. SEO is no more about splurging huge amounts of money as it is about filling page after page with nonsensical keywords.

Links play a huge part in building confidence with the search engines. A site without incoming links is no easier to find than it is to trusts; at least, that is the view of algorithms. So it goes without saying that you should invest a fair amount of time, although not money it should be noted, on building a pretty decent link profile.
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