Archive for May, 2009

Content Writing Tips For Your Business Blog

If you have been blogging for some time you know that it needs to be updated on a regular basis. The most difficult part of blogging is finding interesting topics to write about. You need to focus on what your visitors want to read and not what you want to write. But you should be passionate about the topic you are writing, and your readers can always “feel” it.

A great blog post can easily attract thousands of visitors per day, and this could lead to many unexpected sales or opportunities for your business. If there are enough people talk about your post on the net, you will be receiving a ton of traffic to your website, so make sure your hosting server can handle this before the marketing starts.

One thing that you should never do is to treat blogging like writing an annual report. What this means is that you should use simple words and keep things as short as possible. If a paragraph can be written in three sentences instead of four, then do so. Most people have very short attention span on the Internet because there are so much information available to them now days.
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3 Simple Ways to Build a Website For Your Business

If you have started your own business and are looking for ways to get a website without investing hundreds of pounds, then you will find this short article to be useful.

The truth is that if you do some research on the Internet you will find that there are many tools available to simplify the website building process. To save you time, I will cover three of them in this article and you can decide which one is the best for you.

WordPress – WordPress is free to use blogging content management system. It’s very easy to install and it can be used to build a small 5 pages brochure website or a 500 pages magazine style website. The main benefit is that it allows you to get your business online without spending anything but your time, and you can expand it as your business gets bigger and more profitable. Because WordPress has been on the market for nearly 10 years, most web designers or companies can advice you on many technical aspects, such as how to optimise it for the search engines.
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Tips For Writing Search Engine Friendly Articles

Now that you have your website up and running and you are probably wondering how to get your website to rank high in search engines like Google.

There are many of strategies out there that can help your website’s rankings; one of these is to write articles that relate to your product or service and put them on your blog. If you don’t have a blog you can get one for free here.

Writing articles for your blog is easier than you may think, even if you do not think of yourself as a writer. There are several things you need to know if you want your articles to give you search engine values:

  • Title – your title must convey the subject of the article. It helps to form the title as a question, or a ‘did you know’ format.
  • Introduction – a short paragraph lets the reader know exactly what they will be learning or reading about.
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5 Things You Need to Know About “Cheap” Web Design Companies

With websites being so crucial to businesses these days, it’s important for you to spend some time on getting the right website for your business! You can easily get a website designed within a week, and the cost can be as low as one to two hundred pounds. If your budget is tight, you might end up choosing one company over another because of the cost. But doing so could cost you more in the long run. The difference between a good website and a great website may seem subtle to most people at first, especially if you’ve never had a website before, but the benefits of one over the other would be very noticeable after about 6 months or so, depending on how hard you market your business and what sector you are in.

You’ll need to ask yourself how much time and efforts YOU are willing to spend on the website. Do not rely on your web design company to do all the work for, because they can’t, especially the ones that offer you websites at below market value! So if you are going to use their services, make sure you are aware of the followings:
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How to Increase Your Website Traffic by Writing Articles

If you have been experiencing difficulty in getting qualified traffic to your website, and you do not have an unlimited marketing budget, consider writing articles to increase your traffic and generate new customers.

Become the Expert In Your Niche
Writing and submitting articles that are related to your business, product or service can be a wonderful way to build credibility, increase your search engine rankings, and be seen as an expert in your field.

Writing quality articles is all about using keywords that are related to your product or service. The SEO tools and robots pick up your keywords, which in turn, increases your search engine rankings.
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