24 Feb 2008 08:17:17 | Bibi Liew
I recommended that you get a Blog and link back and forth to
your website. Combining a blog and a website is an effective way
of generating traffic.
What is a Blog? A Blog, or a Web Log, is an online diary where
you can post your thoughts and keep it as a private journal or
you can place it where your readers can get together and place
entries. When blog first came, it was adopted by teenagers and
later by adults to write about their daily lives. Then writers
and journalist entered the blog world writing about books and
investigative reports. But, there's a few people invented
"Business Blog".
Suddenly blogs started appearing on business websites all over
the Internet after people discover search engine like Google and
Yahoo were displaying blogs. The impact was huge. As a result,
people starting creating blogs hopping to get more prospective
customers to visit their websites.
1. User Friendly
Blogs are easy to update and are automatically formatted as you
upload them. The easiest way to get started is to create a free
account in http://www.blogger.com. Blogger is part of Google and
it offer dozens of templates which you can customize by changing
layouts and colors. It allows you to publish your blog without
the need to know about HTML or FrontPage and FTP etc... All you
need to do is write your own content.
2. Create Discussions & Write Honest Reviews
Having your own business blog allows you to create discussion
about the program or products that you are selling and list any
updates to your regular website. You need to know your products
andpreferable use it yourself so that you can write honest
review about it. What better way to promote a product and get
people to believe it's great than to say you use it too? In
other words, it enables you to interact with your prospects.
Blogs have a comment function which allows your customers and
prospects to post their thoughts and opinions. As a result, your
potential customers will have more trust and confidence in your
products or services.
3. Increase Search Engine Ranking
Search engines love blogs because they are frequently updated
with fresh new content. Compared to new sites, active blogs are
indexed quicker by many search engines. After the blog is
indexed, the pages you have linked to the blog will also get
indexed. The more frequently you update your site, the more
frequently your blog will get indexed, and this helps to boost
your search engine rankings. If you make regular postings to
your blog, you can be sure the search engine will visit your
blog again and again.
4. RSS Feed
Most blogging service providers have RSS (Real Simple
Syndication) built-in. Readers can even subscribe to RSS which
notifies them your new posting in your blog. This allow others
to publish your feed on their sites and gain more free exposure
and traffic to your site.
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