If you have a website, you should have a blog. If you don’t have a website — get one already! In today’s world, everything is online. People Google everything from the time of the sunset, to what Angelina Jolie wore to the Emmys this year.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and humanizing your brand are two of the main reasons why you should be doing content marketing at your organization. Let’s explore these two topics in a little more detail…

Search

Having just a website isn’t enough anymore. The website acts more like a placeholder if you don’t post often to your site. For some businesses that might be fine, your information is on the site and people can call you if they need you, understood. But with a blog, Google and other search engines will come back often to “crawl” your site and increase your ranking in their search results. For example, if someone searches “Cupcake shop in St. Augustine” and there is more than one cupcake bakery in town, the one with regular blog posts is more likely to come up first in the list of results.

Humanize Your Brand

In addition to having a blog to increase your searchability, it will also give you more of a chance to connect with your customers. People are more conscious of who they are buying from now than ever, they want to know who is the owner of the cupcake shop and how they got into the business. So tell them in a blog! There are many things you can blog about to keep in contact with your clients and prospects that will help build a relationship with them.

Do you have a business blog? How often do you post to it?

If you are interested in getting a new blog started for your site, or would like to outsource your blog posts, email me and let’s talk about it.

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