Imagine going to a website and the latest post is April 2013, does this make the company look relevant? Does it enhance the perception of the company?
No, In fact it hurts the company brand.
We often hear people say they don’t have time to blog and that’s true, people are busy, especially small business owners. Here’s a hint, blog while you’re driving. How you ask ? Download a speech-to-text app on your phone using your Bluetooth dictate your blog. When you’re finished driving read over your blog post correct any spelling mistakes, source a photo and upload to your WordPress website.
Once you get started with this method you will find you can complete several blog articles on a longer drive or commute.
Here are the top reasons to blog:
- Add more industry-related content for your website
- Enhances SEO and can help increase website search position
- Adds original and timely content to the site to engage viewer
- Positions your business as an expert in your industry
- Informs and educates potential customers of news, products or services
- Helps increase frequency of search engine reindexing
The process of blogging adds fresh content to your website. Search engines like Google look for new original content on a consistent basis. This new content indicates that the website is up to date, fresh and relevant.
In a WordPress website the blog component allows you to add virtually unlimited posts that are categorized and can be displayed in interesting ways. The data is searchable and yields a search engine friendly permalink for each post which can be used in Social Media.
Blogging on a regular basis provides a forum to answer customer questions, discuss advantages of products, display case studies and show expertise in your industry.
There are many creative ways to use the blog function in WordPress. Often the blog will be used as a new section and your web designer can pull posts into your front page to give greater visibility. Corresponding photographs make the post interesting and chunked text makes it readable. Use of proper headlines containing key phrases increases SEO on each page.
Plugins like Yoast SEO can be used on individual blog posts to target keyword phrases your website more visibility on the search engines.
By categorizing your posts they are easy to find.
Blogging on a regular basis key to having search engines revisit your site and index new articles. Whether you blog weekly bi-weekly or monthly it’s important to be consistent.
Many people ask what to blog about. The answer varies depending what industry you’re in. Oftentimes think of the most common questions that clients /contacts have and answer them in your blog articles. Don’t be afraid to have a personality in your blog, people don’t like reading things that are dry, so inject some humor.
The best thing is that original content does not go away, it helps organic SEO and gives your website staying power on the web.