Hint: They Die if They Aren’t MovingSharks Die if They Aren’t MovingYour Assets Die if they aren’t MaintainedYour Marketing is Ineffective if it isn’t Reinforced
A website using a blog can will increase its Internet traffic by 55% and can expect the number of inbound links to increase by approximately 100%
Informative – industry or product news, current events, disasters, holidays, humor
Readable – 2-3 sentences per paragraph, use of easy to identify lists or charts, written to readership reading level
Headlines – which catches your attention more – “Slaying the Maintenance Dragon” or “Maintenance problems”
Link coding – 90% of all blogs I read have poor coding. A good link contains a keyword and a title. The title what you see when you hover over the link. The title gives you extra SEO juice.
that you want to be known for and rank on search engines for
Because Google and other search engines read the html of your page – not the content
A good 800-1000 word blog make take 4-6 hours to research, write and code
Writing calendars
Establishing a web presence takes time – 9-18 months
Twitter – all new postsLinkedIn – Publish to relevent groupsBuzz yahoo, Google buzz, Stumbleupon, Digg etc…Professional Associations
Make sure readers can subscribe to your blog
Accept and offer for others – develops connections, credibility and links