Five Ways A Blog Helps You To Market Your Business

Want advertise online without spending a fortune? Get a blog.

If you're an Internet marketer, you need a blog, because:

* a blog helps your site rank higher search engines; and

* a blog expands your customer base.

Blogs are often called social marketing tools, because they let you interact with your readers via comments permalinks (see glossary below.)

What's a blog? Get up speed here:

* http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs

Let's look at five ways a blog helps you market your business.

One: A blog helps your site rank higher search engines

In 2003, when Google bought Pyra Labs, company which developed Blogger, reaction was Huh? At time, blogs were seen by most online journals, primarily maintained by demented teenage girls.

How times change. In 2005, companies small large are using blogs promote their businesses. This because Google other search engines love blogs because their constantly updated content.

Blog often, you'll get more visitors a good search engine ranking.

Two: A blog expands your customer base - you'll reach people you could reach no other way

A blog helps you reach people you can reach no other way because your frequent updates mean you'll automatically get niche visitors - those people who have no clue about you or product you're selling, but who happened type a search engine query mentioned words you used a single post.

Those niche visitors can become buyers, this means you don't need struggle get top listings any search engine. Write (or link to) quality content, your visitors will find you.

Three: A blog helps your site differentiate itself

A blog a form stealth marketing. Therefore a blog doesn't need be about products you're selling. A blog can be about any topic you're passionate about. Blog about your passion, mention - passing - products you're selling. You can also link them, but don't bother selling heavily - that's not what a blog about.

Four: Like a diamond, a blog forever

Although most-visited blogs update often, some them several times a day, that doesn't mean that you have post more often than you can fit into your schedule. Your permalinks (see below) mean that since your blog items are standalone pages, they're indexed by search engines same way that any HTML or other page indexed - your blog items/ pages will continue bring traffic even if you don't update very often.

Five: A blog attracts new opportunities

A blog makes your business visible. Your stealth marketing efforts will attract attention people who may become joint venture partners, or who will have other opportunities you.

The time energy that you invest your blog can bring results beyond your wildest expectations. Create a blog - it's your hardest-working, most cost-effective online marketing option.

GLOSSARY:

Blog = Web log.

Permalink = permanent link, an URL a single blog post.

Comment = blogs have a comments section, where readers can interact with blogger others.

Copyright 2005 Michael Murray

Michael Murray a 22-year old full-time Internet marketer college student with Cerebral Palsy who lives sunny Orlando Florida. His latest site an information center adware information: http://www.adware-software.com/spywareremover

Liveblogging Electoral College, Senate And House Results Tonight Donklephant - Nov 4, 2008 By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Blogging Get ready folks, because we’ll be covering every national election result till the very ... More Site Issues Donklephant More Site Issues Donklephant all 3 news articles

Site Issue Donklephant - Oct 28, 2008 By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Blogging, Technology Something’s going on over at our hosting service Media Temple, which means our site has been up ...

China gags Scoble but blogging still lives The Inquisitr, Australia - Nov 9, 2008 This past weekend has been a really boring one as far as news in the tech blogosphere. It got to the point that I joked on FriendFeed that we needed a ...

From The Department Of “ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!” Donklephant - Nov 11, 2008 By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Blogging, Bush, WTF? Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. ...