The power of blogging. Start marketing your business immediately by writing articles

We've been pushing our clients to publish regular articles for years, as it will have a massive impact on increasing your website traffic. The only difference is that it now has a hip name for it. Blogging!

02nd May 2009 published by Kevin Collins

The power of blogging. We've been banging on about it for years. It's now just got a funky name for it! Start marketing your business immediately by writing articles, the more articles you write the greater search engine exposure it will get. We'll take care of the rest through automated Search Engine Optimisation features, which you can over-ride if you really know what your doing to produce excellent search engine placement. GUARANTEED. Writing news articles (referred to as Blogging) is a great way to start generating content for your website. If you to do nothing else but post regular blogs you will generate exceptional exposure for your website. The more articles you write the greater search engine exposure you website will generate.

Once your page is set up as desired (we can do this for you) then you can manage all of your blogging activities and presentation controls through our easy to use Content Management System.

What should I write about?

If your struggling to know what to write about start by talking about what othes might want to know such as; Who you are, What you do, Where you do it, Why your doing it and How you're different.

Write something immediately, you can worry about buiding your site structure (known as wireframing) later. Once you see how easy it is to publish blogs you'll soon identify ways to extend your website's capabilities.

Why is blogging so great?

Eventually everyone asks how they get to the top of Google and we often hear of companies still paying extortionate fees for average results, when it really isn't that difficult to get better results yourself.

Your new website is packed with all the latest SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) techniques, which the system takes care of automatically making it easy to generate excellent results. Once you see how easy it is to influence search engine you'll probably want to take manual control.

What control do I get?

By working with the News blog module we've made it really easy to manage the publication of your blog in one central location, with the control to publish content in many different regions of your website as demonstrated with this article and page all generated by one article.

Website stylesheets control presentational and layout, set up with a broad set of requirements considered. You can also publish photos, thumbnails, documents, tags, publishers, categories making it quick to make global changes to large sites.

Can I change the look of the site?

In our approach we offer a default template, which is constantly tested with all our developments and for the latest standards compliancy issues. Depending on your long term expectations of your website you can change your design now or in the future in keeping with your bespoke design requirements.

In our experience, if your plan is to get to full e-commerce in the shortest amount of time we'd recommend resisting the temptation of producing a fancy design until you've completed our suggestive development cycle at least once and stick to the defaults for as long as possible.

Guarantee - Our approach will save you time and money!

Writing regular news articles is imperative for the continued success of your website. Take our advice, get to grips with what your audience want's to read and use this period to research your online competitors before running away with fancy designs and expensive developments.

Not only will you reduce any bottlenecks in your content publication you can always re appropriate your articles in constructing a full brochure website later. As you learn how to write effective articles and start competing online you can start focusing on your niche.

What next?

Once your ready to progress you'll need to get to grips with building your site structure adding layers to the existing content you've already started generating. Begin now by Signing up to a FREE trial of the Solv.IT CMS and posting your first blog.

We hope you found this introduction to the News blog module informative ...

 

Best of luck, Kevin

Tagged under: Blogging, Sales & Marketing, Strategy, Internet Marketing, Project management, Search Engine Optimisation, Content, Small business

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