An 11 Step Guide to Effective Blogging

Why Should I Blog?

Do you like dollars in your pocket? Do you like selling to people who know who your business is prior to you calling them? Do you like being generally awesome? Then you should blog.

Companies that blog get 55% more website visitors than businesses that do not. In fact, companies that blog have more leads and close sales faster than their non-blogging counterparts! Each blog article you create is another website page for the search engines to consider and serve up when someone searches on Google, Yahoo or Bing. Each article also gives you another opportunity to convert readers to leads through complimentary calls to action.

How to Effectively Blog in 11 Steps

1. Complete the blogging worksheet
2. Write a blog article
3. Add an image
4. Create keyword-rich links
5. Add a call to action
6. Create key takeaways
7. Create whitespace
8. Bold important and compelling text
9. Write a strong meta description
10. Tag the article
11. Blog at least once per week

Additional Resources:

Download the 11 Step Blogging Guide

Download the Blogging with Yours Keywords Worksheet

Writer’s Block? How to come up with a Year’s Worth of New Content in 20 Minutes or Less

Video of the 11 Step Day Camp Webinar

What Effective Blogging can do!

Effective blogging can do a lot for your business. It establishes your business as a thought leader, which increases your web visibility and humanizes your brand. People purchased from "people", not companies. The more "human" your business, the easier it is to make a sale. Also, Google will periodically crawl websites looking for new and updated content. Blogging ensures there will be fresh content on your site when search spiders arrive. Sites that get crawled more often have more frequent updates and more authority.