Business Blogging Hype
OK,
It’s officially time for everyone to stop screaming, “You need a blog!”
Everyone already knows they need a blog, so let’s move on. There are literally millions of blogs now, and if you’re trying to improve your SEO and stay up with the competition, you already know you need one. Odds are, you already have one.
What’s more common these days are the shouts of how ineffective blogs are. That they are not helping the bottom line and that companies are not seeing the overall benefit of adding content to the respective blogs. But understand, it’s really not an option at this point. It’s more of a maintenance thing now.
You see, your competitors are blogging every day. It’s not whether you blog anymore, but rather, how much. If you don’t blog at all you probably will get lost in the dust. So at this point of the game you may just be blogging to hold your ground. You may not see the miracle blog results that were common a few years back, you may just see average growth.
But it will be more that what you would see should you decide not to blog. Because content is still indeed, KING. Google has not ended it’s blog love affair by any stretch of the imagination, nor does it look to be something that might happen in the near future.
Nope, you need blog content and your going to need it for a long time to come. Like web hosting, blogging has become a standard for doing business online.
Is a blog going to be the miracle that your business needs? Maybe, maybe not. But you probably won’t be able to do without one either.
April 24th, 2009 at 8:10 am
I think it is a challenge for many people running a business to appreciate an activity without seeing an immediate return on investment of time or money. I view blogging and marketing as long term investments in building your business.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:34 am
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June 30th, 2009 at 3:36 am
I would have to agree with Jim here, blogging and marketing is a huge long term investment in your business, to build it up like and thing or any one they need creditability in order to move forwards.
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July 28th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I agree sometimes you may post on a blog but no one really knows if its helpful. It takes time to put out good content to captivate readers.
September 30th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I think Quality is first… Blogging has no meaning if it has no quality.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Absolutely, if you have a blog but never add any value to it, why would anyone want to read it..
December 12th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Quality first! I agree. Blogging has no meaning if it has no quality. If you don`t add value to blog posts no one want read it.