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Blog Ghostwriting Lets You Get On With Business

Search engine optimization is a slow process, a process that can take months to see results. You can speed that process up by adding a blog to your website. You can speed the process up even further by creating a self hosted blog on a separate server to your website. The one argument we frequently hear is that time is a big issue. It needn’t be. Get someone else to do the ghostwriting and you can get on with building your business.

If you are going to build your business’s online profile then you need to invest in your future. The small cost you pay today to create a blog and have a ghostwriter create the content will pay huge dividends in the future when your main business website starts to rank highly in search results. More importantly, a blog can help you add hundreds of long tail keywords, long tails that individually only provide a small amount of traffic, but collectively account for a large amount – and it is often more targeted.

What makes a website popular? Why does one online entrepreneur make more money than another? What Makes Home-Based Medical Transcription Lucrative? They all have one thing in common. They promote what they do well. For a business, a blog is the start. Add a social bookmarking and social media marketing regime to your regular posting and your blog will rapidly climb the search rankings. I read where one blog wondered “Is Social Search Just Getting Its Diapers?” It probably is – however the future is bright for social search and if you can take advantage of it now, you will be well placed when social search does advance.

If you are wondering where to start when it comes to creating a blog, I suggest you read Why Develop Your Own Blog Platform? first. There are plenty of good blog platforms around so don’t try and reinvent the wheel – go with what works. A post that reinforces everything we have said in the past describes How writing for the web differs from writing for print. There is a big difference between the two.

Blogs are an important tool for any business if they want to build their profile and increase visitor numbers. If you need a ghostwriter to get your blog off the ground and sending traffic to your website, contact a professional blog manager. They can develop your blog while you develop your business.

What Kind Of Writing Style Should You Use On Your Blog?

Every writer has a style. Every blog has a style. And style is important.

You’ll have to consider what kind of style you’ll have when writing your blog. Do you want it to be direct and confrontational? Funny? Powerfully dramatic?

It’s important to consider the nature of your audience when playing with style. And you need not necessarily develop your style on the first post. Play around with it a little bit until you find your comfort zone.

The bottom line on blog writing style is that it must engage your readers and keep them coming back for more. If you employ a ghostwriter for your blog, work with your ghostwriter to develop a style that best reflects your business and what you want to get out of your blog. Readers will decide to keep reading based on your style.

Why Do I Need a Blog?

Why do I need a business blog and why should I hire someone to manage it for me?

By now, most business Website Owners have learned there are advantages to having a company blog. But why do I need a company blog? How will it really help me?

Most bloggers, even those who have been blogging for a long time, do not truly understand all of the ways a blog can benefit your business. They are good bloggers. They even may know a little about SEO and can put all the keywords and phrases into your blog. But do they really know about blog marketing and what the benefits are for their clients? Do they really know SEO or the technical aspects of operating a blog?

Do you know all of the benefits of having a business blog?

Let’s see;

Why does my Business need a Blog?

A business blog is the most cost-effective way to add fresh content to your website daily.

It is the most affordable way to build link popularity.

A business blog can make you money through Conversational Marketing.

A business blog will help drive more traffic to your website.

It gives you a place to offer special deals, make announcements, issue press releases, and get feedback from customers.

You can have a private blog that your employees or shareholders read.

There are way too many ways your company can benefit from a business blog to list on one page. As they say; “Think Outside The Box” and create new ways blogs can be used. All the uses for a blog have not even been invented yet. Be the first to try something new. Call us at 786-317-8774 and get a free business blog consultation. We’ll brainstorm with you!

Your business blog can be within your website or on it’s own domain name.

Your company blog can be used to help capture a specific search phrase or phrases in the search engines.

You can have a company blog in your website and one on its’ own domain name, each achieving a different purpose.

You can have multiple blogs all working for you at the same time. The options are endless.

It is not a one-size-fits-all deal. Our Blog Consultant will talk with you, analyze your business, and come up with a strategy that benefits your business. Click here to get a free business blog management quote.

Blog Management and Marketing

Blog Content

Your blog content will make a lot of difference to how well you do with both the search engines and with visitors. Whatever your goal is for your blog, to make your blog popular to read, to make sales, to drive traffic to your website, to get people to sign up for something like a newsletter or affiliate program, or something else, you will need good, original content.

Not only do you need good original content on your blog, you need it every single day.
Blog search websites like technorati.com and Google’s BlogSearch list blogs by the most recent posts that match the user’s keywords. If you are not posting daily, you can get buried beneath all of the other blogs that do one post or more every day. Our daily blogging service will make sure your blog is updated every day or more often if you choose that option.

Blog Posting is more than just writing. If you want your blog to be interesting to user and also rank well in the search engines, you need to know how to structure your blog posts properly.

Do you know the proper way to write your blog post titles?

Do you know how to use keywords in your blog post for the search engines without seeming spammy or obvious to your readers?

Do you know how to use good anchor text and a proper linking strategy?

Our bloggers are trained to write relevant, interesting blog posts that are also optimized for the search engines. Read more about our Daily Blog Posting Service.

Social Bookmarking and Social Networking

Social Bookmarking and Social Networking are extremely beneficial to your blog. It can help you with link popularity, attracting more visitors to your blog, more comments on your blog posts, and even help you rank better with the search engines. However, social bookmarking is time consuming.

Many people try to automate the process for that reason. Automated social bookmarking will not get you all of the benefits that social networking will get you if you take the time to do it yourself. Most business owners do not have the time it takes to participate on these social networks. That is why Blog Content Provider does it for you. Our basic social bookmarking package comes with our Daily Blogging Service, but we also offer social bookmarking as a standalone service. Read more about our Social Bookmarking Service.

Professional Full Service Blog Management

Let our staff completely manage your business blog for you. We will handle everything. We will choose a domain name for you where necessary, provide blog hosting, do the installation, create or choose a blog template, optimize your blog for the search engines, provide the daily content, and do the social bookmarking. You turn your business blog over to us and we do it all for you. Read more about our Complete Business Blog Management Service.

Blog SEO and Programming

Blog Installation

Wordpress claims you can install wordpress in just 7 minutes. Some cpanels have fantastico that will automatically create a database and install wordpress for you. But is that all there is to installing a wordpress blog? No. There are better ways to securely install a wordpress blog on your server.

Then you need to choose the right plugins to enhance the usability and improve the SEO of your blog. Every blog is different. Every blog has different goals and obstacles. So choosing the right plugins is more than just going to someone’s favorite list of plugins and using them all.

Some blog service companies brag that they install wordpress with more than 80 plugins! Wow! 80! How many of those plugins do you really need? Usually just a few. We securely install your wordpress blog and choose plugins for you that fit your specific needs. Read more about Blog Installation.

Blog Setup and Configuration

A lot of people will tell you that choosing the settings in the admin area of your wordpress blog is self-explanatory. To who? There are a lot of choices to make in the admin area.

An experienced Blog Manager knows which settings are best to use from experience. For instance;

Do you know the best sites to put into your ping list?

Do you know the proper way to create categories?

Post Slugs?

Is time-stamping a good idea?

Do you know how to configure all of the plugins or get an API Key?

Our Blog installation specialists will set everything up for you. Read more about Blog Configuration.

Blog Theme Installation and Editing

Here again, it sounds easy. You choose a theme, upload it to your themes directory, and voila! You’re done right? No. Choosing a theme isn’t as easy as it sounds. There are tons of free themes on the web. You could buy one from a designer. You can have one custom made for you.

Do you know a good theme from a bad one? I mean besides how pretty it is. Did you know that sometimes free themes have hidden malicious code in them, put there by the programmer/designer?

Are you able to determine good code from bad code? Is the code in the theme written in a way that will hurt your chances in the search engines?

Do you know how to edit the php in the header.php file, sidebar.php, or footer.php to add the enhancements that will make your blog both more attractive and more productive?

Choosing the right theme for your blog is more than just finding one that looks nice. You do not need to have a custom blog theme built. You can use a free blog theme. But you need to know how to choose the right one. Our Blog Installation Service includes choosing and installing the right theme for you. If you want a custom theme, you can read more about Custom Blog Themes here.

Blog SEO

You need to optimize your blog for the search engines. That means editing the code of your blog theme, setting up proper permalink structure, creating the right categories, and even choosing the right plugins, among other things. Our Blog SEO specialists go over your blog theme line by line to get rid of unwanted or unnecessary code.

We fix the blog title structure. We install and configure your blog plugins. We create a proper permalink structure. We edit your blog template to install feedburner, email scripts, affiliate buttons, or whatever else you need. Our clients are very happy with the search engine rankings their blogs are getting. Let us show you how we can improve your results. Read more about Blog SEO.

If you are not sure what you need, call us at 786-317-8774 for a free business blog management or SEO consultation.

Does Your Blog Have A Natural Language Flow?

Blog writing isn’t hard. Too many bloggers try to make it difficult. You don’t have to spend hours upon hours searching for the right keyword for every blog post. Do most of your keyword research right up front. If you know what your niche topic is and the most important 15-20 keywords for that topic with 100 or so related keywords (yes, keep a spreadsheet unless you have a photographic memory) then you have enough information for a year’s worth of blog posts.

You don’t have to go down the list of keywords making sure that each blog post is stuffed with X number of a specific keyword in order to be optimized. The best optimization is simply natural language writing that incorporates a good mix of the right keywords over time. I’ve proven this over and over again on countless blogs of my own and client blogs. Keyword optimization for blogs is about two things: Single post high octane content and blog brandable content that moves beyond a single post. Do the first one right and after a year of posting the second one should fall into place. Natural language writing is the key.

Is There A Blog Content Wholesale Market?

Blog content is a necessity. In today’s Internet marketing climate, if you don’t have a blog then you’ll fall behind in both the search engine marketing arena and the social media marketing arena. That makes blog content the most important content you can own. Not only should you ensure that you have daily content on your blog, but you should ensure that customers you serve have it as well. But who is going to provide that content?

You have choices. In order to keep your blog updated daily, you can choose from among your options:

• Do it all yourself
• Hire a ghostwriter
• Use articles from article directories
• Rely entirely on guest bloggers
• Purchase PLR articles and turn them into blog posts
• Use a combination of these methods

For most businesses, the first option is the best. If you can write your own content then you should. But there may be obstacles to you doing that – time, inability to write, lack of tools or knowledge to use them, no understanding of SEO and best practices, to name of a few. That’s why hiring a blog ghostwriter is a very close second best option and is the actual best option for many businesses.

If you only use articles then you aren’t putting unique content on your blog every day. If you rely solely on guest bloggers, you won’t content on your blog every day. If you use PLR articles then you’ll find yourself spending more time turning them into usable content that provides you the benefits you are looking for in a blog. That means you are stuck with either doing it yourself or hiring a ghost blogger. And, let’s face it, a good number of your customers and business associates are in the same boat. But who has time to do it themselves?

Most small business owners struggle to take care of the tasks they are currently performing, let alone adding the daily posting to a blog. But you can actually pay for your blog every month by reselling blog services and taking a commission. All you have to do is identify the need and communicate it to the right people.

The wholesale market for blog content is there and no one else is meeting that need. We do.

Why You Shouldn’t Listen To The Gurus

The gurus want to sell you books. They are full of advice about how you should do this or you should do that. But they aren’t holding your hand while you’re doing it, are they?

It’s nice that they want to share their knowledge. Isn’t it? I mean, they’re not giving it away. It’s not free. There is a price tag on it. But your success doesn’t ride on that price tag. They get paid whether you succeed or not.

The fact of the matter is, online marketing comes in different shapes and sizes. What works for one situation may not work for another. A blog is an instrument. In the right hands it can play a beautiful tune. To someone else it may just make a bunch of noise. At Blog Content Provider, we consider ourselves your personal guide to blogging and when it comes to blog marketing, if you don’t succeed then you don’t succeed. Our business model is based on your continued success. If you don’t make then we don’t make it. What guru is going to tell you that? Do you get a refund on that e-book if you fall on your face? Will he retract his advice? If we don’t help you succeed, you can fire us. And that’s why we bank on what we say. Because we’re doing it.

Are You Buying Into The Blogging Hype?

It seems that marketers are all too ready to hype up the latest in marketing strategies. Guess what? Blogging is in. But should you buy the hype?

Before you do, consider some of the harsh realities of blogging:

• It is time consuming
• You can blog for days, weeks, or months and not close any sales
• Blogs have a traditionally high bounce rate
• It’s not as easy as it looks
• Good blogging can increase your SEO benefits, but bad blogging can kill your business

OK, that’s pretty negative. So if blogging is so bad, why are we advocates of businesses starting blogs? Well, quite simple. The benefits far outweigh the costs. See for yourself:

• Good blogging involves good writing
• Blogging is the most cost efficient means of marketing online
• A good blog can increase your search positioning by 1,000% in a few weeks
• Blogging makes for a great lead generation tool
• Blogging = SEO (if it done right)
• You can drive tons of traffic to your landing pages with a well-written blog

If you’re ready to start a blog for your business, ask yourself these questions:

• Can I write?
• How good am I at SEO?
• How familiar am I with online marketing strategies?
• Does my website get the traffic I want
• Are other methods of marketing online delivering results?
• Am I getting enough leads to follow up on daily?

If you answer in the negative on any of these questions then chances are you can benefit from a blog. But you can also benefit from a blog ghostwriter.

Let’s face it, you have your specialty. Stick to it. And let the online marketers who have their specialties stick to theirs. It’s just good business sense. Don’t you agree?

Should You Start A Business Blog?

Blogging seems to be the buzzword of the decade. Everyone seems to want to get in on the action. Presumably, business owners who are just showing up at the blog party are doing so because they’ve heard somewhere that blogging is a great way to market their business. Well, it is, but only if you do it the right way.

There are many things to think about when starting a new business blog. It’s not all cupcakes and roses. You have to consider how often you’ll blog, whether you’ll do the actual writing yourself or hire someone to do it for you, and what you’ll write about on your blog. Too many new business bloggers start out writing then find out they have nothing to write about. Either they’re not focused or they haven’t thought through completely what they want their blog to be about.

At Blog Content Provider, we take a multi-strategic approach to blogging. First, there’s SEO. Why blog if you aren’t going to target your blog posts to search engines? You want your blog posts to rank for specific keywords related to your business so that you attract the type of readers you want. But focus entirely on SEO and you’re likely to write boring content that no one wants to read.

If you focus your blog posts on a conversational style of writing instead of “marketingese” then you’ll make people feel more comfortable about reading your blog. They want to see a real person, not some stuff shirt talking down at them. It’s a different kind of marketing than what most people are used to.

Thirdly, social media has become a strategy of its own. You’ll have to decide to what extent you want your blog to be socially motivated.

When it comes to blog marketing, think it through before you do it and when you decide that it’s time to start your company blog, learn the right way to do it before you jump in and ruin your marketing plan before you implement it.

Blog Marketing As Time Management

Why aren’t you blogging this way?

How to Market Your Blog Without Spending Too Much Time

By: Gen Wright

Most bloggers make the mistake of spending too much time promoting their blogs and not spending enough time creating valuable content for their readers. If you’re going to get a million visitors, you have to ask yourself what do you have to give in return. Otherwise, the traffic is just going to keep going downhill. That’s why many bloggers have to keep spending time promoting their blogs. It’s a no win situation. Visitors come to their blogs, find blog entries with little value, and never return again. So now the blogger has to work harder to promote the blog, not realizing that they’re not giving their visitors what they want.

To avoid this mistake, the key is to market your blog in a smart manner, leaving you more time to write high quality entries in your blog. There are many ways to acquire traffic for your blog without you having to spend too much worrying about traffic. Here are the most effective methods that successful bloggers have employed.

Method 1: Search engine traffic. We’re talking about the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. If your blog ranks well in these search engines, you’ll get repeat traffic again and again from the keyword searches. That frees you up from having to worry about getting a constant stream of traffic. It’s completely on autopilot, and frees up a lot of your time. But how do you get your blog to rank well in the search engines? More on this later.

Method 2: Blog search engines. These are search engines created specifically for blogs. They usually list content based on the most recent, and allow visitors to vote for their favorite content. Blog entries with the most votes usually earn a home page ranking, which gets them even more traffic. Set up your blog to ping the blog search engines. Again, this is an automatic process and does not require your intervention once you set it up.

Method 3: Article marketing. This is, by far, the most neglected method among bloggers but it’s also one of the most effective ways to get loads of back links. Once your back links are out there in the article directories, they’ll get you traffic over and over again. A submission is a one time effort but you get traffic month after month. But there’s an additional side benefit that makes article marketing so popular.

Blogs with the most back links are rated highly by the major search engines. If you have enough back links from authority sites linking back to your blog, your blog will rank well naturally in the search engines. No matter what your blog title is, it’ll come up in the search results. So that’s killing two birds with one stone. Keep up your article marketing activities, and you’ll get traffic from your article back links and the search engines. This makes article marketing an absolute must for bloggers, because if you do not implement this simple technique, other bloggers will, and their blogs will rank better than you in the search engines.

It’s like doing exercise. You spend a little time on exercise to get more time. So the next time you come across an article marketing service, don’t ignore it. Embrace it, and catapult yourself to blogging success.

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Darren Chow is a full time web developer. His latest project is a Blog Search Engine where bloggers can promote their own blogs or track other people’s blog. He also offers Article Distribution Services at affordable rates.

Blog marketing doesn’t really take a lot of time. In most cases, if you create consistent blog entries every day over the course of several months you will begin to appear in the search engines for key search phrases related to your niche. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do any marketing outside of the search engines. You can submit your blog to blog directories and do article marketing. But you can also submit your blog posts to social bookmarking websites. But don’t spend so much time marketing your blog that you don’t have time to write it.

What many of our customers do is hire a ghostwriter to put optimized content on their blog daily and spend their time marketing the blog – online and off line. It works. Let the experts do what they do best, you do the rest.

Why A Blog Is A Necessity For Marketing Online

Here’s a great article on why you should have a blog if you own a business and do business online.

Why Blogging is No Longer Optional If You Do Business Online

By Christine Gallagher

I know, I know. I can hear some of you groaning now! Many of you already have a blog and understand its importance in gaining visibility for your business. But I know many others are still resistant to the idea. You believe it takes too much time and effort, you don’t think you are a great writer, you don’t know how to set one up, you don’t know what to write about….I understand all of the reasons that may be holding you back.

If you already have a traditional, “brochure” style website for your business that’s great. You should keep that as a place for prospective clients and customers to visit to find out more about you and what you offer. I use my blog as my main site, meaning I don’t have a separate, static website. That’s a personal choice. Many people choose to have both, with the blog being linked to from the main site.

If you don’t currently have a blog, there are several important reasons why you should consider it:

Visibility: If you are doing even just some of your business using the web then you obviously need to have an online presence. Having a blog that you post to regularly is a wonderful way to capture and keep the attention of your prospects. When they see that you are posting consistently updated content, they are more likely to return to your site.

Search Engine Optimization: This doesn’t mean you need to study up and implement a ton of SEO techniques yourself. But blogs by their very nature are dynamic, meaning the content is updated often. In Google’s eyes, this is a very good thing-it shows that their users are getting fresh information. A blog is a great way to get your business to rank well in the search engines.

Community Building: By allowing comments on your posts you are promoting conversation and encouraging feedback. It can even help you to perform “market research” and find out what it is your target market needs from you. This feedback can also be helpful for coming up with ideas for future posts.

Positions you as the Expert: Something interesting happens once you begin posting useful content regularly and attracting subscribers. You become seen as a thought leader in your niche. This leads to more opportunities, more relationships and more business. It’s a terrific way to communicate the value of what you have to offer to prospective clients and customers.

Personality Sharing: Blogging gives you a chance to be seen as a real person and not just a business. Be willing to express opinions and let your true self shine through. This will go a long way towards humanizing you in the eyes of your readers.

In my opinion, the best thing about blogging is how simple and quick it is to publish a post at the push of a button. It’s also wonderful to be able to track exactly how many people are coming to your blog and where they are coming from. Just install Google’s free Analytics tool and you can see detailed statistics on your visitors and traffic.

Just begin and get it going. Aim to post once a week. They don’t have to be long posts and they don’t have to be earth-shatteringly brilliant. As with anything, you’ll get better at writing the more you do it. Jot down any ideas that come to you for posts as you go about your day. I keep a file of topic ideas that I think of and I find this helpful to look at if I get stuck for what to write about.

Blogging should be something you carve out time for just as you would any other marketing activity. If you really feel you would have nothing to say to people who may want to hire or buy from you, then perhaps it is just not for you. But I encourage all small business owners who are doing business online to at least give it a try. You never know, there may be people out there just waiting to hear your voice.

Christine Gallagher, MLS, MSIS, founder of CommunicateValue.com, teaches solopreneurs and small business owners how to use online marketing and social media to communicate effectively and authentically and attract more business. For FREE tips on how to build profitable relationships, leverage technology and create your own successful online business, visit http://CommunicateValue.com

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If you feel like you can’t write or you don’t have time to write your own blog then you might be a prime prospect for a ghostwriter. The fact is, however, that a blog is the best online marketing tool you can have. Bar none. I firmly believe. Even a poorly SEOd blog is better than a static website with no promotional efforts at all. But if you’re going to have a blog it’s best to learn how to write a blog post that is search engine optimized.

Blog Content Provider not only will write your blog content for you, but if you want to write your own blog content we will consult with you and teach you how to write search engine optimized blog posts.

If you are doing business online, there is no reason not to have a blog. You should write to your blog daily, but once a week is better than nothing. The important thing is to start a blog and start posting as often as you can. The longer you wait the longer you are putting off your own success. Learn more about how to get premium blog content today.