If your small business has a website (which it should!) then you should most definitely consider having a blog. Blogs are not just for rambling musings about peoples’ day-to-day lives and opinions, rather blogs are a fundamental way to improve traffic to your website and expand your business.
Blogs can be a great way to bring new customers to your business, or even to engage with current customers on a more personal level. A blog gives your business a voice, and a personality, and people do business with people. Giving your small business its own voice through a blog can be a great way to build your brand.
Having a blog also enables customers to engage with your business; they can comment on blog posts and have their own say about what it is that you and your small business do, how they think it could be improved and can even respond with praise for you service!
Blogging can also be a great way to increase web traffic. People often stumble upon blog posts relating to information they were looking for and will then visit your products or services from there. Chances were, if they were looking for something you have written about they are likely to be interested in your business!
There is another way blogging helps increase your web traffic, and that is by the increase in relevant, fresh content on your website. If you have a blog on your website the search engines love websites that have regularly updated, unique, relevant content. This in no way means you need to blog every day, but updating your sites’ blog regularly holds many benefits in terms of search engine optimization.
As well as creating a great avenue for fresh content to be displayed on your site, blogging also creates a new way for you to incorporate your key search terms in to your site; without it seeming ‘spammy’ or unnatural – if you talk about what your company does and related fields, chances are the keywords you are focusing on will naturally occur.
I love blogging about business and WinWeb.com – I find it exciting, and an exhilarating part of owning my own business. Give it a whirl, you just might love it!
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Blogs are a great source of information, especially for small business & home businesses. So many bloggers share their vast knowledge and experience with us all online and for free. Many of these blogs have become an invaluable source of information and insight. Lately however, I noticed a trend that makes it almost impossible to use some of my favourite blogs because of the amount of advertising and the way the advertising is intermingled with the real blog content.
Darling Brown: " That'll be £30,000.00 Please – Each!"
Here is the staggering truths, how our Darling-Brown dream team – nightmare team – paid out $2.4 trillion of our tax-money on the UK bail-out, or should I say the UK bank bail out.
We all remember the Darling Brown spin:
… and so on. Well here are the facts:
These numbers show that the UK is the worst affected country world-wide by a almost 4:1 margin.
How some of the money was spend:
TOTAL of over £1.5 trillion directly into banks – unbelievable, staggering – who has been made responsible for this mess?
The government has “borrowed” this money. National debt:
More than half of the spending on the NHS will be just interest payments to cover the national debt and equal to the education budget.
Between 2007 and 2008 our loss in personal wealth has been £31,000 per household. The effects of “quantitive easing” and the unprecedented loss in the value of the £, will increase the pressure on our personal wealth even further.
The effect on all of us, not only Jeremy Clarkson, will be felt for decades to come, our pensions, house prices, the ability to buy foreign goods, travel & holiday – will all be impacted by these follies of a few, including our current government.
How to move forward? What we need is more self-employed, small businesses, home businesses. We need people who understand what it mean to make money. People who understand and care enough to realize when we are being lied too and given the famous Labour spin.
The banks enjoy a special status in our society, they should not be allowed to abuse this status. If they do they need to be asked to repay the damage that they have caused. Not only the loans that they were given, but also all the damage they have caused us personally with their reckless behavior.
If you and I go out and cause reckless damage, we will be ordered by a court to pay for the damage. What is happening here? All the talk is about remuneration for bankers, profits in Q3 and so on. The banks should not make a profit until they paid for the damage they have caused us all.
As for this government, I have no words for the unbelievable spin and deceit of the British population. – ST.
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