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Tracking Search Trends for Blog Traffic
Google Insights is a great tool for understanding how search traffic can trend throughout the year. When you’re looking at tracking blog traffic results alongside revenue and profit you want to understand why you are and are not getting traffic. Insights can provide some answers to that “why” question you will have…
Sticking to a Blogging Schedule
Does keeping a blog schedule help bloggers succeed? Some seem to think consistency is even more important than talent. When others fall by the wayside after a bit of failure others will proceed with no promise of success and continue posting. Is this how they are winning at the blogging game? Let’s take a look and discuss…
Business Blogging Continues to Grow in 2011
Business blogging continues to grow. A recent finding by inbound marketing software company HubSpot found that businesses engaging in blogging activity rose 17% from 2009 to 2011. That’s a lot of businesses jumping on the blogging bandwagon. But what does this mean for your business? Is blogging right for you…
Own Your Content – Blogging vs. Social Sites
In today’s world we hear about the benefits of using popular social sites like Twitter and Facebook. Businesses have been using these and other sites to their benefit for a while now. But is there risk involved with spending so much time contributing content to someone else’s property? Is there more benefit to be had by building your own content assets?
Do Not Ignore The Longtail
I’ve been messing around with longtail keyword phrases on Country Music Life for a few months and things have been interesting. There are always the high traffic phrases you need to target, but ignoring the longtail means missing out on some serious traffic. Check out the results of the longtail testing on CML…
Tweets For SEO: An Experiment
A recent post on SEOmoz highlight an interesting new trend in search: The Power of Twitter links. In their example they found that they’re rankings improved when a popular Twitter user tweeted about a page on SEOmoz. When I read about this I had to try it out on Country Music Life. The results were small, but still fun to test…
Business Blog Topic Ideas
We’ve covered the news in the blogosphere about the crackdown on content farming. Search engines are looking to not necessarily punish sites that don’t post original or unique content, but quality content appears to have more of a fighting chance in the future of search engines results. For bloggers this means the challenge is there to find the balance between quality and quantity. One reason blogs don’t become successful is an apparent lack of post ideas. Here are a few ways you can find quality blog post ideas for your business blog…
Avoiding Content Farming in Business Blogging
Google recently came out with strong statements regarding their upcoming outlook on content spam. Google appears to now have their guns aimed at websites that simply create spam-type content (sometimes known as content farms). You’ve probably seen examples of this even if you haven’t realized it. Google is trying to give credit to original sources of quality information while weeding out sites that simply copy and paste (or very close). How does this affect business blogging? Let’s take a look…
Blogging for Business: Sarah Lynn Design
You can read tons of blogs telling you how businesses have been successful drumming up revenue and new business from their blog. It’s always better, however, to hear it from the actual people involved in blogging and building their business. Here we have an example of a young, driven business owner blogging to achieve recognition in her industry while earning sales and gaining interest from clients. Continue reading for the rest of her story…
Blogs Drive Sales…for Beauty Products
A common questions especially in the corporate retail world is, “Does blogging lead to sales?” Marketers are especially driven by the top and bottom lines. It’s a great question and the truth is for some businesses blogging has been the only way to generate sales. For others, like large retailers a blog isn’t all about driving sales directly. Recently, though, a study found that women are learning to trust blogs more and more. Check out the results. They may surprise you.