Blogging
Does your Local Business have a blog on their website?
Use blogs to help with search engine visibility! A blog, or web log, is an online journal you can post content to quickly and easily. Local businesses in the Litchfield Park, Goodyear, Avondale and Buckeye area can use Blogs to promote their own business and gain local market clients and customers!
While blogs used to be primarily kept by individuals (as online diaries), they have come into their own as business and marketing tools. Basically, a blog is a website with content arranged in chronological order. Once set up, a blog is easy to publish as you don’t need any HTML / web coding skills. Blogs have a fill-in-the-blank interface where you enter your content. Then you click a “Publish” button and presto, your new content is automatically converted into HTML code and published to a viewable page — in a matter of seconds. Here’s where search engine optimization comes into play. By default, blogs do many things well that can help them earn search engine ranking. In many cases, blogs can achieve solid ranking faster than regular websites. A blog is easier to publish than a regular website, so you can post content to it more often. Search engines like websites with frequently updated content.
- See why becoming a member of Active Rain and upgrading to a “Rainmaker” account is a great way to get Real Estate referrals. The West Valley Home Team uses it’s blog to help keep the people of Litchfield Park, Goodyear, Avondale and Buckeye up to date with the “Out and About in the West Valley” blog.
- Learn how to setup your account at WordPress, Blogger, Ping.fm and how to best tie them all together.
- Let us show you how to incorporate images and video into your Blogs.
- Use RSS Feeds to publish your content and allow your users to get automatic updates to your Blog.
- Learn how to “feed” your Blog directly into your Facebook Business page.
