Using Blogs To Advertise Your Business

After you have your website up and running the next thing you have to worry about is driving traffic to your site. One of the easiest and fun ways to do that is to use a blog. Its also a good way to share your expertise and gain credibilty with your customers. They are able to see for themselves you really know what your what you are doing.

Setting up a blog is simple and there are many free blogs you can choose from wordpress and blogger are just two of the many available. They are easy to use and come complete with many features. All you need is a little creativity to successfully advertise your business.

1. Start with a nice design most blogs come with premade templates you can change the colors and the images to make yours unique.

2. Keep adding new and unique content if you cant think of topics join other blogs and read to get some ideas.

3. Ping! If you want search engines to to pick up your blog then you must ping them everytime you add new content to your blog.

4. Advertise your business within your blog with a link to your business site. People don’t like typing in URL’s to visit sites. Make it easy for them.

5. Use your keywords. Search engines return results based on the keywords internet users put in the search. Make sure you include keywords in your blog that pertain to your business. It will increase the chances of your blog coming up in the search results.

Advertising is a very important part of your business. Your blog is free advertisement take advantage of that.

Do Follow Blogs

Today I spend all of my work day submitting to Do Follow Blogs. These blogs have the no follow feature disabled and when you comment you get a back link to your site. I spent a lot of wasted time before, submitting to blogs only to find out they had no follow which means basically I got nothing for all my time and effort.

The no follow tag was implemented by Google who were trying to stop spammers from advertising all kind of trashy sites. But it had one bad effect it stopped a lot of good people from commenting on articles they had read. It meant that urls in the comment field were ignored by google, and the page rank and indexing weren’t improved.

If you want some link juice go to the search engine and find directories that have “do follow blogs” there are plenty of them. WordPress blog owners have the option of installing the plugin to turn off the no follow tag. If you are a blog owner please turn off the tag and encourage other to comment.