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Online marketing is about finding a niche and building on it. You could say harping on it. Blog Content Provider has been showing businesses how to capitalize on niches for over two years now. As many online marketers are talking about the increasing difficulty of marketing online, we’re talking about how increasingly easy it is becoming. It is easy - if you know how.

The problem with most companies is they don’t know how. Company after company come to us to start a blog only to find out that there is a power play between the management and the marketing department. The fact is, most company marketing departments are not successful at marketing their company’s website online. They may be great at traditional marketing, but online marketing isn’t traditional marketing.

Off line you can integrate all of your marketing efforts seamlessly under one department. Online, it is better to segregate your efforts into niches. A television campaign that highlights the benefits of doing business with your company can work wonders, but you are better off online targeting each division of your company to the target market that is interested in that doing business with that niche. If you market your company this way then you could end up with 50 or 100 blogs in addition to 50 or 100 separate websites - one for each division of your company. That OK. You’ll be much more effective that way.

You don’t have to set up all 50 of your websites and blogs in one day. Start with one. When you see the results you’ll be amazed and you’ll share your success story with other department heads. We know. We’ve seen it many times. I’m sure we’ll see it again.

In a forum the other day I had an interesting conversation with a couple of marketers. They believe somehow that content isn’t king. In fact, one of them went so far as to say that links are king. But if you try to build links to a web page with no content then Google is going to have a hey-day with you. My view is that links are just another form of content - off-page content.

Links are important, but on-page content should always be your starting point. Some people think that quantity of content is what makes or breaks your site or blog. Not true. Quality of content is far more important. But quantity does help. Especially on a blog.

Google will only rank one page on a website for a particular key phrase. Which blog post do you want that to be? Preferably, it will be your blog’s index page. But you won’t get your index page ranked highly on Google for popular key phrases without targeting that key phrase consistently over time. We’ve proven that you can do this. Yes, it takes time. And the more competition you have for your key phrase, the longer it will take.

At Blog Content Provider, we don’t discourage alternate ways of driving traffic and making money. But we do encourage using the search engines to take advantage of the natural, free ways you can rank your pages. Consistent daily blogging is one of those ways. We’ve done it time and time again, and we’ll keep doing it as long as it works.

The latest trend in blog marketing is guest blogging. It’s really nothing new. Newspapers, magazines, websites, and publications of all kinds have featured guest writers for hundreds of years. Now, you can promote your own website and blog through someone else’s by becoming a guest blogger. Here’s how:

• Read a lot of blogs in your niche - Subscribe to every blog within your niche that you can find. At the very least, read the top 10 or 20.
• Take note of the latest trends - Know what people are interested in.
• Comment on blogs - Become a commenter, but not an annoying one. Don’t just comment for the sake of commenting. But when a topic comes up that piques your interest, comment on that blog post. This will give bloggers an idea of who you are so that when you express an interest in being a guest blogger then they will already be familiar with you.
• Respond to queries - Many blog owners who plan to use guest bloggers will run a notice on their own blogs first. It makes sense to start with your own readers. When you see a notice asking for guest bloggers, toss in your name.
• Be courteous and professional - Always be nice. You’re on someone else’s property.
• Don’t wait - Don’t wait for an invitation. If you have something to say and you’ve already been a regular reader for some time who has left comments and participated in the community, send a short, friendly query to the blog owner asking if they use guest bloggers. Don’t be pushy. After sending the e-mail, sit back and wait. A blog owner may be on vacation or be busy and can’t get back to you in a few days. Be patient and your answer will come. Be prepared for “No” and don’t be disappointed if you are told “No.” The blogger may decide to use guest bloggers in the future and you could be their first choice.

Many blog owners use guest bloggers. Usually, you’ll get an author bio and a link back to your own blog, a real meaningful benefit that often leads to new readers, more traffic, and higher conversions.

Interested in guest blogging for Blog Content Provider? Send an e-mail to allen at articlecontentprovider dot com. You might also ask about guest blogging opportunities for the Article Marketing Blog.

From time to time we get a contact form from somebody who just wants us to consult with them. We’re always happy to help someone who wants to learn how to blog, even if it’s just on a short-term basis. If If you have a small budget and can’t afford the monthly blogging service or you’ve tried the monthly blogging service and found that your sales cycle is longer than you’d expected or your ROI isn’t what you thought it would be then we can consult with you to help you write better blog posts. Here’s what a consultation will cover:

• Setting up a blog - If you want to set up your own blog then we’ll spend some time going over the set up process with you to help you get a good start.
• Choosing a template - Choosing a template involves more than just going through the list of what is available and selecting one you like. You aren’t picking curtains for your living room. A good template must be optimized. We’ll teach you how to go about discovering whether you’ve got the right template or not and how you can fix it if you don’t.
• Setting up your link structure - The link structure between your blog and your business website is very important. We’ll show you how to set up your link structure properly for the maximum SEO benefits.
• Optimizing your blog post - Properly optimizing a blog post is more than tossing in a few keywords here and there. We’ll show you the elements to look for and how to incorporate them.
• Writing effective blog post titles - It’s an art. Anyone can write a blog post title, but not just anyone can write one that gets attention. We’ll show you how to write blog post headlines that get people to read.
• Social bookmarking - Social bookmarking is a new social tool that bloggers can take advantage of to spread the word about their blog and business. We’ll show you to get the most from your bookmarking efforts.

There’s a lot more we could teach you too. There is so much to learn about effective blogging that it would be hard to put it all into one blog post.

When it comes to blogging for business, expectations can get the best of you. I’ve talked to business owners who thought that after two months of blogging they should be getting more business than they can handle. Would you have the same attitude if you opened up a hardware store on the busiest street corner in your neighborhood? If so then you may not understand business. There is more to it than simply throwing up a sign and opening the doors. There are certain things that have to take place and many of them require time to fully germinate.

For a blog consultation, call 786-317-8774 or visit Blog Content Provider.

Have a business blog? Need a directory? Blogs.pn has been turned into a blog directory and you don’t need to offer a reciprocal link to be included. We’ll even pass you some link juice along the way.

That’s right folks. The latest blog directory online, Blogs.pn, will give you link juice just for submitting your blog. It costs nothing, not even a reciprocal link. Customers of Blog Content Provider will be included automatically and we’ll do the submitting for you. This truly is a win-win situation for you and for us.

I wouldn’t start a website today without a blog. Some people don’t even bother with a website and just use a blog. I don’t think I’d go route that either, but a website without a blog in today’s marketing economy just doesn’t make senses. Here are the top 3 reasons you need a blog today:

1. A blog increases your search engine saturation - A static website with 10 pages means you have 10 chances at getting ranked in the search engines for your keywords. Every blog post is a separate web page, however, and every time you write a blog post you create one more chance to achieve a high ranking for your keywords. After one year of daily blogging you’ll have 365 potential high rankings. With a 10-page website you’ll still just have 10 chances.
2. A blog is crawled more often - Search engines like fresh content. If you build a static site and only update it once a year then you will likely only see the search engine spiders once a year. But if you write to a blog every day then you’ll get crawled every day.
3. A blog is natural link bait - Inbound links count. You can build a static website and never get linked to, but if you write to a blog every day and you write useful, valuable content, you will almost always get linked to from other blogs, especially if you are involved in a community within a niche.

Why not start a blog and start taking advantage of these benefits today?

Here’s an excellent article for real estate professionals on the different types of blog that you can start for your local real estate market to help you market your business:

Real Blogging - 3 Creative Ways to Use a Real Estate Blog

By Brandon Cornett

Blogs are a simple and efficient way to publish information onto the Web. Blogging programs are flexible, versatile, easy to set up and even easier to use. Because of these benefits, people from many different industries are using blogs in creative ways to support their business.

Real estate agents have also found many effective uses for the blog. This is the industry I am most familiar with, so I would like to contribute a few ideas of my own. Here are five ways real estate agents can use blogging to support their business.

The author actually only introduces three types of real estate blog, but I’ll provide the other two. We have had many clients succeed with their real estate blogs and I know we can help you too.

1. Relocation Advice and Support

A savvy agent could create a blog catering to people who plan to relocate to the agent’s city. This would be a great way to keep these folks informed on local real estate issues. It’s also a good way for the agent to connect with future clients who are moving to the area. Blogging programs are easy to set up, so an agent could create one specifically for this purpose.

This strategy is perfect for areas with a high rate of buyer influx and population growth. For example, here in the Austin area where I live, there are a lot of folks relocating from California. If I were a local real estate professional, I would launch a blog that catered to these people. It would be a great way to generate new business, so it would be a worthwhile venture.

Relocation advice is one of the most popular types of real estate blog. Not only can you share information about relocating to your particular area, but you can also provide general relocation tips like this moving company does. In fact, why not partner with a moving company in your area to write a combined blog dealing with relocation advice? You can market both of your companies and share the expense.

2. Local Real Estate News Source

An enterprising and web-savvy agent could also manage a blog like a real estate news website. It could be hosted under its own domain with its own web address, separate from the agent’s main website. That way the blog could be named something appropriate, like the “Raleigh Realty Weekly” (or whatever is applicable to the agent’s locality and specialty).

This publishing strategy would benefit the publisher in several ways. First of all, the agent gains another source of Internet traffic, which can be valuable in terms of business growth. Theoretically, two websites could mean twice the traffic … and twice the leads.

This is also a great way to network with professionals in related industries, such as home inspectors, mortgage brokers, home stagers and more. These folks could even be invited to contribute information to the site.

A news blog would also help the agent establish a level of authority. For example, few agents would be able to say something like: “Jane is also the publisher of the Dallas Real Estate Review…”

Excellent advice. One well-written mortgage and real estate news blog is the Mortgage and Real Estate Blog. This is a blog that covers the mortgage, banking, and real estate industries. It also sometimes promotes real estate and mortgage blogs that use the Blog Content Provider services or that choose to sponsor the blog (contact BCP).

When it comes to blogging, the real estate industry probably has the most natural creative outlets for meeting the needs of its customer base. Why not use them?

3. Timely Market Updates

Blogging is easy, even for people with little or no web-publishing experience. As a result, blogs are ideally suited for updating an audience about timely topics. This is why a lot of realty professionals use blogging programs in the first place. They realize that their audience (home buyers and sellers) wants current information about the local housing market. So these Internet-savvy agents use their blogs to share information about local sales trends, housing prices, new homes for sale, new neighborhoods being developed, etc.

Blogging seems easy, but it really isn’t. You have to understand how to get attention for your blog and many self bloggers stumble through it without ever achieving any level of success with it. But blogging about your local real estate market is probably the easiest way for real estate self bloggers to get in on the action. Doing it this way will demonstrate your level of knowledge on your market, but it will also mean you are just like everyone else. You have to do something to set yourself apart from other real estate bloggers like Adrienne Francis has done.

Conclusion

These are just a few of the ways you can use a real estate professional can use a blog to grow his or her business. There are plenty of other creative strategies as well. The point of this article is merely to open your eyes to the possibilities of blogging. Not all of these ideas will be right for you, but one of them could be. So do some experimentation and see what you can come up with. Use the ideas I’ve listed above to get your creative juices flowing. Good luck.

Brandon Cornett publishes a number of websites related to real estate marketing, mortgage web site strategies and more. For more marketing tips, visit the author online at http://www.smartmortgagemarketing.com.

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This is a great article by Brandon Corbett, but as he said at the end, there are other ways you can make a real estate blog work for you. One other type of real estate blog that you can write is a community blog. Instead of focusing entirely on real estate, you can make your blog’s focus the entire community that you serve. You can lead people to the parks and rec department of your city, discuss neighborhood improvement, community service projects, or anything of service to your community. This type of blog will make you a pillar of the community and not just a real estate agent.

Another type of blog that you can write is a local listing blog. Why not make each blog post highlight a listing in your portfolio? This is relatively simple and can be done through RSS feeds or simply by copying and pasting the descriptions of homes in your portfolio listings to your blog. There will be a high degree of duplicate content with this type of blog, which may cause it to not do so well in the search engines, but because it is a blog and not a static website, you can reach your market through ping lists that are off limits to static web pages where real estate listings usually appear. You can essentially use this type of blog to target a market demographic that you can’t reach through normal organic search marketing.

There are other types of real estate blogs that you can put to good use as well:

• Hybrid - Combine one or more of these types of blogs into one.
• Specialty - Write a green real estate blog or target another specialized market segment.
• Use your imagination - There is no limit to what you can achieve through a real estate blog. Have an idea? Let us know. Blog Content Provider is ready when you are to do what they say can’t be done.

Many people still do not know what a blog is. As long as this form of communication has been around you would think that business owners would begin to understand. But they haven’t. Especially small to medium size business owners.

It’s makes sense really. You’re busy running your business. You don’t have time for blogging and you’re not sure why you should. Well, that’s understandable.

While you may not know what a blog is today, you will in a few years. I predict that in five years everyone who is online will be running a blog, or they won’t be getting much traffic to their website. A blog is the best way to attract search engine spiders and humans interested in your topic. But what is a blog?

I will attempt to define a blog in terms that you can understand: A blog is a new way of presenting a website using custom or off-the-shelf software that places the latest information on your website at the top and that also allows you to categorize your information according to keywords that are important to you and your target audience.

Does that confuse you? Let me break it down:

1. A blog uses special software - You have to have blogging software of some kind. There are various software packages on the market, but the one I recommend is WordPress. It’s free and relatively simple to learn.
2. Organizes latest information at the top of the page - Which means the oldest information is at the bottom and if it’s real old then it’s archived on separate pages.
3. Allows you to organize information by keywords - Blogs have categories and tags that allow you to organize your information. Categories are usually niche-related words that you can use to organize your blog posts that are related to each other, but which may contain different information. Tags are better for addressing each separate blog post such that you could have blog posts with information about different topics and placed in different categories that share the same tag simply because you mention a certain item in those blog posts even though the focus of the information is different.
4. You become a publisher - As a blogger, you have editorial control. You decide what’s important and what the focus of your information should be. You can write, edit, and publish the information on your blog or hire someone to do it for you.

This is a simple snapshot of what a blog is. It doesn’t contain everything you should know or can know about a blog. Consider it an introduction. If you want to see an example of a blog, you’re looking at one now. Blog Content Provider is a ghostwriting services that manages company blogs for a list of clientele in various industries. Our knowledge of SEO and Internet marketing can benefit you as every blog post has the potential to rank in the search engines for your key phrases. For more information about blogging, check out our website.

Blog marketing is really nothing new. It’s been hitting the mainstream pretty hard for the last two to three years, however. But we’ve still got years to go before we saturate the Web with too many blogs. Every minute a new blog is started and probably three times as many are abandoned. What can you do to make sure yours isn’t one of those left high and dry?

For starters, you need a plan. You need to define your blog’s purpose and hit it strong. Who is your target market? What do they want? And how will you move them to being customers?

While a blog is not the answer to every problem, it can become an integral part of your online marketing strategy. But you shouldn’t miracles. A blog is a pre-sales tool. It isn’t your primary closer and you shouldn’t expect it to be. A blog can, however, be used as an SEO tool as long as you don’t overdo and use it to spam the search engines with useless content. First and foremost, you’ve got to provide your human readers with valuable and helpful content. When you do that you increase your visitor count and you can drive traffic to your most important landing pages. But first you have to capture the traffic.

That’s where a professional writer comes in. To make sure your blog attracts traffic and drives traffic to your most important landing pages, you need an experienced blogger who understands SEO and sales strategies to get your blog to perform its mission. Do you have one your team?

By Angela Booth

If you enjoy writing, blogging is great fun. You can even turn your love of blogging into a great career. Blogging is a great “work from home” opportunity - you work the hours you please, you work from home, and you’re your own boss.

Blog jobs are springing up everywhere like mushrooms after rain. In this article, you’ll discover five easy tips which will help you to land all the blog jobs you want.

Here are the tips.

1. Focus on your own blog first - build your name and reputation

Your own blog is not only your “portfolio” showing your blogging skills and expertise, it’s also a way to get known. Please don’t just aim to be a generic blogger or writer. In blogging, you need to build your name and reputation. Once people know who you are, you can charge the rates you want.

Don’t forget to let people know you’re available for blog jobs on your blog. Create a “Hire me” page.

2. Use the blog job boards with caution - the best jobs aren’t advertised

Once your blog’s established, check out the blog job boards. However, use them with caution. Check out job posters on Google. If you can’t find anything on them - be very wary.

3. Write guest posts - for free - on other blogs to get known

Writing for free - to get known - is the key to being paid well to blog. Remember, you need to get away from the generic “blogger” tag as soon as possible. Spread your name and writing skills around. You’re laying the foundations of a great career.

4. ASK! Propose a blog to sites which don’t have one

Here’s a big tip. When you see a site which doesn’t have a blog, but which would benefit from one, propose a blog. Your proposal can be just a short note to the site’s contact email address, or it can be a full-blown business proposal.

I suggest a message of a couple of hundred words for your proposals - you’ll be amazed at the results you can get. One blogger is now happily blogging for a large corporation, both publicly, and privately, for the company’s internal blogs. He’s making three times his previous salary.

5. Use the free classifieds sites to spread your name

The benefit of the free classifieds site is that they’re free, and that they spread your name far and wide - remember, the more you get known, the more blog jobs you’ll get, and the more you’ll be paid.

Enjoy blogging: you can turn it into a fantastic career when you know how to get blog jobs.

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If you’re looking for a way to earn some extra cash and you like to write, put in your application for a blog writing job to Blog Content Provider.