Tyra Douyon - April 24, 2024
In the early 2000s, a running joke was that everyone had a personal blog. According to American society, which was just exploring the intricacies of the World Wide Web, it was the thing to do to make your mark on the Internet. That task has since evolved to include having a YouTube channel, a social media page, and a LinkedIn account. However, many bloggers never stopped writing; they were just smart enough to turn their online journals and “side hustles” into full-fledged business services.
It’s important to understand that the blogs of old have evolved way past being digital dust collectors. When the blogs on your website are updated and optimized correctly, they can be a powerful tool to drive even more traffic and lead conversions. Here’s how!
Today, businesses use blogging to educate their target audience, market services or products, and earn money via ad revenue. Blogs are now a lucrative money-making strategy. If you aren’t using one, you could be missing thousands of dollars from your wallet.
Nevertheless, there is still room to share fun experiences and interesting industry trends on a company blog. Many include business milestones, awards received, employee interviews, and press releases responding to current news.
Marketing research proved that blogs can generate more leads by incorporating storytelling. They allow your customers to connect with your business on a personal level, and doing so builds brand identity. (Source: Marketing Insider Group)
Blogging Statistics You Should Know
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Now that you know the answer is yes, people still read blogs; how do you make yours stand out with 600 million blogs on the internet?
Quality and quantity matter.
Adding a long list of new blogs to your website won’t just magically make the phone ring. The blogs need to:
Publishing informative blogs will make your business appear more professional and credible. Regarding quantity, writing ranked/top-searched research blogs takes hours of detailed work, expert SEO analysis, and proofreading professionals to catch any grammar or punctuation mistakes. Consider hiring an advertising agency to write the blog so you have the best material for success.
Paragraphs of text without any white space to break up content will make even your most dedicated reader click X on your website. We can add different design elements to your blogs, from block quotes, bolded text, bulleted lists, automatic videos, and animated graphics.
Including useful content on your website is a no-brainer, but what about unique topics, opinion pieces, and case studies?
For example, if you’re a home builder, your most intuitive homebuyers may more readily click on the “Easter Recipes to Try” title rather than the “April Housing Market News” article. If you include the right links in the blog, they could easily go from mentally checking what ingredients they have in their pantry to contemplating buying a new home in no time. Try something new and analyze what performs well for your business.
Writing articles exploring commonly searched topics and keywords will help with SEO on your site. Research the questions bringing people to your site or adjacent to it, and write to capture that attention.
We use tools like Semrush and Google Trends to provide insights on what people are searching for to plan and write content for different businesses!
Don’t just direct readers to another page on your site or send them off without anything else. Give them a chance to submit their information in exchange for further value.
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SEO backlinks are links from another website to your website. A healthy backlink profile is critical to ranking on search engines and driving quality leads and traffic to your target web pages. Backlinks are important aspects of SEO because they demonstrate to search engines like Google that your website has authority, especially if other high-authority domains are linking to it.
Our team can run in-depth backlink audits to determine potentially dangerous backlinks from other websites that will likely get your website penalized by Google.
If you didn’t notice while skimming through this blog, we added several links to other sections and blogs on our website. This technique, called link building, allows your customers and readers to dive deep into your featured content. They can click on helpful hyperlinks as they read the blog, so they never have to leave your website.
We’re sorry to break it to you, but AI will not fix all your problems. Sure, the robots can book your next vacation, give you a medical treatment plan for a broken toe, and provide delicious recipes for a 7-course Peruvian meal, but they can’t 100% write your ranking blogs.
Google uses various techniques to identify and flag machine-generated content, including natural language processing (NLP) algorithms that analyze the text for patterns and syntax familiar in computer-generated writing.
Don’t lose your business credibility trying to save time and money by asking ChatGPT to write your content. A combination of AI output and human editing is the actual answer. Make sure that if you use AI, you include intelligent prompts so the answers you receive are well-written and effective. Google does not penalize AI content. It penalizes poor content.
Source: Search Engine Land
Don’t lose customers and fumble leads this year because your blog content is outdated, inaccessible, not optimized, or missing from your website. Contact Rearview Advertising and ask how we can improve your blog today!
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