Blog Your Way to The Top - How Blogging Will Take Your Business to New Heights

Blogging is a powerful tool for businesses looking to stay competitive, reach new customers, and expand their digital footprint. In today’s digital world, if you are not blogging you are having business taken from you from your competitors. From SEO and increasing website traffic to creating credibility and engaging with customers, we will tell you why consistent blogging can take your business to the next level.

​Determine the Best Topics for Your Target Audience
One of the most important things to consider when creating content for your blog is who your target audience is. No different from general marketing, knowing details about who you are writing for can help you determine what topics and angles to focus on that will be both interesting and relevant to them. Understand their pain points and what keeps them up at night. Why would they be searching for a product or service like yours? And if they were reading a FAQ section of your website what questions would they want answers for? Base your blog topics off of those questions along with leveraging SEO.

Leverage SEO for Better Content
SEO, or search engine optimization, is one of the most effective ways to get your business and blog in front of potential customers. Not only does SEO help you choose the best topics your readers will be most interested in, but it helps you understand which keywords they are using to find a business like yours and the information you are providing. If you have the right topics with the right keywords in your content, you will be killing it on the search engines and outranking your competitors. Spend some time researching what words and phrases your target audience is typing into search engines and incorporate them into your blog posts. This will ensure you’re doing everything you can to reach as many potential readers as possible.

Promote your Blog on Multiple Channels 
No blog is complete without the help of other channels to spread the word. Social media is a great place to share your blog content. If you have multiple platforms, share the blog on all of them. Make sure you create posts with short paragraph hooks about your blog topics that pull people in. Add links to your full blog content on your website. The idea is to bring traffic from other channels over to your website. In your short snippets, leave the readers hanging so they have no choice but to click over to your website to learn more. Having a presence on multiple platforms ensures that you can reach a wider audience, as well as create engaging content to boost your SEO rankings. Make sure to ask followers and friends to share your blog content with their networks as well. Social media influencers can also be an excellent way to spread the word about your blog, helping more readers find it! Another great way to effectively promote your blog is through mass email. Email marketing using your blog content is another way to drive traffic to your website. You can share your content via email with your prospects and your current customers. This shows that you are current, an expert in your industry, and up to date with the latest topics. Another way to promote your blog is through other websites. You can do some research on businesses similar to yours that overlap a little but do not compete with you directly. Approach them asking if, in their blogs, they can link to your blogs that are relevant to their content. And you can do the same for them. The more backlinks you can get leading to your blog the higher you will rank on the search engines.  

Include Visual Content and Links to Increase Engagement 
Along with an effective writing style, good content must also incorporate engaging photos and images to keep readers interested. Visuals don't have to be complicated or time consuming to create; even small elements like photos, infographics, or simple illustrations can make a big difference in terms of engagement and reader retention. Investing even a minimal amount of time into creating visual content for your blog posts can go a long way towards keeping readers on your page longer and improving the overall experience of your blog. Make sure to also include internal and external links. Internal links are hyperlinks throughout your blog content that send the visitors to other pages of your website. Make sure to include at least 3 of these in each blog post. External links are words in your blog that are linked to other websites. Just as discussed in the previous paragraph, you can link to other blog content, or if you are mentioning another business, author, book, or any other content that you can find more information about on an external site, make sure to link over to it. Add at least 3 external links to each of your blog posts as well.

Encourage Discussion and Interaction Through Comments
Blogging is not just about creating content—it's also about engaging and interacting with your readers. Comments create a two-way conversation between blog authors and readers, helping to foster relationships built on trust and mutual respect. Encouraging blog comments gives readers the opportunity to share their thoughts and ideas, while giving blog authors valuable feedback they can use to improve their content. But make sure you or someone on your team is always available to respond to the comments. Although moderating blog comments may take a bit of effort, it will be worth it in the end as it will create more interaction and engagement amongst your blog visitors.

If you are not blogging on your website, right now is a great time to start. If you don’t have the time to write a blog a week, let our busy bees at Clairant take the weight off your shoulders. We do this for our happy clients every day and we know what we are doing. Let us write your blog content for 2023 and sit back and watch the traffic on your website flow in.