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Small Business Blogging Tips for Beginners

It’s no secret that companies allocate a great deal of time and effort to develop credible blogs that draw additional traffic to their sites. Unfortunately, small business owners oftentimes find themselves at a disadvantage. They might not have the experience or finances needed to establish a blog that will increase their company’s SEO — or so they think.

4 Ways To Make Your Blog Content Work Harder

A full 65 percent of companies now have a blog.According to Hubspot’s 2011 State of Inbound Marketing Report that’s up 17% from just two years ago.But, with that commitment comes a major commitment in resources–both staff time and money. With big investments come big expectations. And, corporate teams are often left a little disappointed in that area. Not enough RTs. Not enough page views. Not enough actions on behalf of their customers.

How to Make Your Site a Daily Hotspot

Getting consumers to come to your website can be challenging, but it's not as difficult as some businesses make it out to be. Some businesses think that they have to invest a lot of money or develop an entirely new brand before they can draw consumers back again and again, but, fortunately, they are wrong.

Simple Blogging Rules Make A Huge Difference

It is no big secret that blogging can provide a significant income stream. This knowledge is so well known that the blogosphere went from being a relatively small part of internet content to its current point where almost everyone has a blog. Ranging from internet marketing experts through teenagers, everyone is attempting to cash in on a blog in some fashion. However, while many blogs exist, only a small percentage of them actually yield significant dividends.

Are You Blogging?

Here are some useful statistics as reported in, Blogging: The Best SEO Tool for Small Businesses. Hubspot recently published a study on that showed companies that blog have far better marketing results. Those who blog see 55% more visitors to their website.

A Local Directory for Your Business Blog

Yesterday we talked about making sure your local business is listed in online business directories. Abby Johnson discussed this in a video. If your business has a blog, you may want to also look into this directory called WikiCity, which is calling all local bloggers to help grow its location-based blogroll directories (hat tip to Matt McGee).

Business Blogs Only Work if You Use Them

The New York Times recently ran an interesting piece about how most blogs on the web are abandoned, or at least very rarely updated. The article cites a study performed by blog search engine Technorati, which found that something like 95% of blogs it tracks had not been updated in the past 120 days (from the time the research was collected). Is This a Problem That Plagues Your Business?

Tweeting with Value and Blogging to Compliment it

The other day we talked about blogging for business, and how it was the last thing on the list of social priorities for most businesses according to data presented by eMarketer. Of course, we have also repeatedly discussed various business benefits to the use of Twitter.

Where is Blogging on Your List of Social Priorities?

Everybody's going on and on about how businesses should be using social media. Obviously that includes me, as you know if you've read SmallBusinessNewz for any length of time. What are small business owners actually using social media for though? What do you use social media for? Tell us.

Tips to Get People to Subscribe to Feeds

Darren Rowse is an Australian blogger, speaker, and consultant. He is the founder of several blogs and blog networks, such as b5media and ProBlogger.net. According to Wikipedia, two of his blogs get around 85,000-100,000 page views a day and over $20,000 in total ad revenue a month. In other words, the man knows his stuff when it comes to blogging. If you are looking to improve your blogging efforts, he is a good person to follow.