If you are a business owner, a shop owner, an artist, a plumber, you just name it. Whatever you do as an occupation or hobby you can make it more visible, relevant, popular and far-reaching when you launch it online through the creation of a website or blog.
In recent times owning a website and blogging has become very relevant if you want to keep up with today’s social media marketing arena.
Whether you are a small business or a conglomerate with hundreds of staff personnel, having a website or blog should be an integral part of your overall success plan, as this can help improve your online content marketing strategy.
With a website or blog you will be able to promote your online business to the right target audience. And whether you apply SEO or PPC, visitors or users who find you online will only need to be directed to your site or blog for further engagement or action.
Your website provides a description of what you do with all your products and services listed. Blogging will further provide relevant content/articles related to your services with the goal to educate readers, users and prospects of what you really do.
Below are reasons why you should consider having a blog/site:
To drive traffic:
With a blog, you will have the platform and opportunity to produce significant content for your readers and customers. This is a cool marketing technique to drive good traffic back to your website. With a good blog written and posted on social media sites you will be able to offer your social followers a good reason to click-through to your website and business.
To increase your SEO or Search Engine Results:
Blogging consistently have been proven to help boost SEO. Writing fresh content via blogging is still an essential element if you wish to beat competition in the search engine results page.
To position your business/brand as a leader:
When you write good and persuasive articles it can help establish your company as an industry leader. When you post vital topics that resonate with your niche revealing your knowledge, it means you are creatively marketing your skills for what you do (your business, service or product).
If you sell products online you can blog about them and your customers and target audience will get to find and know you as the knowledge source for the specific products they want.
With a website and blog, you can become the center, or the place to be, for your industry. Once you have built trust through your content you will find it easy to naturally develop better customer relationships!