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It starts with a blog
or Get Your Website Ready For the Social Web!"

Birgit Pauli-Haack, June 2012

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Business Reasons to Blog

Establish trust & thought leadership by providing relevant content

Be a resource for your current customer

Connect to new customers/Lead Generation

Visibility & Find-ability on Search Engines

Central Hub for Inbound Marketing using RSS

Create share-able content for your cheerleaders/strategic partners/members of your business network on social networks

Blog & Traffic

A little math

Current static website.

5 to 20 pages

Once set-up, never changed.

Blog-Site

3 post per week 150 per year

450 pages in 3 years.

20 vs. 450 incl.

With constant updates

Search Engine Ranking

Update more often - 3 time a week vs once a year

Interlinking on pages & posts (more links into the site from front page.

URLs with higher keyword density

More focused content = more relevant

Easier to use linking back.

Blog engines come with better built-in SEO

Example: First 4 Months of Blogging

3.5 x More Organic Search Engine Traffic

Example: 4 Months of Blogging

2.2 x Increase of Visits to Lead Generation page.

Sharing economy

Go Viral via Sharing

Post relevant content FOR your target audience.

Find your champions!

Write for your chearleaders!

Inbound Marketing through Blog:

One blog post per week (minimum, optimal 2 3/week)

You can post from your desktop, phone, iPad or tablet. One place to go to post. Your website.

Blog software/3rd party Apps will Auto-posted to FB (RSS Graffiti, SproutSocial etc.)

Auto-posted to LinkedIn (TypePad,

Auto-posted to Twitter (Twitterfeed, RSS Graffiti, )

Auto-assembly of e-News (RSS to Email Mailchimp,

Set-up once, ongoing posting to the social web and other channels.

Feed the Beast

Engage w/ your Followers/Friends

Allow for comments on blog

Allow Fans to post on your page

Reply & Retweet on Twitter

Post on FB Brand Pages AND Personal Profiles

Post on Google+ Page & Personal Profiles

Post photos mobile to Instagram or Flickr

Reciprocate / Pay it Forward on the Social Nets..

Most importantly #BeRelevant

Measure everything!

Define goals to set benchmarks

Measure online interactions

Open/ clicks e-mail

Shared Links stats

Web stats Referrers

Bit.ly, clicks rates

# of meaningful interaction

Rinse, Repeat

Blogging Tools

To start out, for practicing & Personal Blogs

WordPress.com

Blogger.com

Tumblr.com

For Business ( WordPress self-hosted)

Page.ly

www.Wordpress.org/hosting

BlueHost or Dreamhost

Links: Better Blogging

Links:

George Orwells 5 Rules of effective writing
PickTheBrain.com

Ernest Hemingsways Top 5 Tips for Writing Well

copyblogger.com

5Tips to Write Blog Posts

About.com: Blogging

Chris Brogans Best Advice About Blogging

ChrisBrogan.com

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