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How Much Should You Pay Someone to Write Your Business Blog?
If you’ve made the decision that you need to hire someone to write content for your business’ blog, then you need to understand two things: how to find a qualified person to write your business blog and how much you need to pay that person. You can follow the preceding link to learn how to find bloggers to write your business blog and keep reading this post to learn about how much money it’s going to cost you.
There are many factors that affect how much a professional blogger will charge you to write blog content for you. A dozen of the most common factors are as follows: [Read more…] about How Much Should You Pay Someone to Write Your Business Blog?
5 Steps to Write SEO-friendly Business Blog Posts
As
you work to grow your business blog, you’ll notice that the traffic that comes to your blog from search engines can be significant. How do you get more of that search engine traffic to your blog?
By using search engine optimization techniques as you write your business blog posts, you can attract more search engine traffic to your blog. Following are five steps you can employ as you write each post you publish on your business blog to make your posts more search-friendly.
1. Use keywords in your blog post title.
First, do some keyword research to learn what keyword phrases related to your business blog are attracting traffic, and select the keyword phrases that you want to focus on to increase targeted traffic to your blog from search engines. Then, use that keyword phrase in your blog post title. Following are suggested tools for keyword research: [Read more…] about 5 Steps to Write SEO-friendly Business Blog Posts
5 Easy Ways to Get Your Business Blog Banned by Google
As your business blog grows, you’re likely to find that a lot of visitors find their way to your blog through search engines, particularly Google. While it’s very important do keyword research and use search engine optimization techniques in an effort to increase that search engine traffic (stay tuned to BusinessLogs for search engine optimization tips coming later this week), there are some things that you must avoid, no matter how tempting, else you run the risk of having your business blog banned by Google.
In simplest terms, Google uses a proprietary search algorithm as well as human analysis to detect sites that use search engine optimization techniques which artificially inflate the results Google returns for keyword searches. If your business blog is caught doing any of the things listed below, your blog will be flagged as spam and may very well be banned from all Google search results going forward.
In other words, don’t do the things listed below if you want to get traffic from Google: [Read more…] about 5 Easy Ways to Get Your Business Blog Banned by Google