08 Mar 2008 12:28:38 | 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.
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 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.
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 and preferable
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.
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.
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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