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How Does Blog Marketing Work?

Doug Williams @ 4:14 am

This blog entry was posted on July 20, 2010.

Marketing is about creating visibility of your product to the right people at the right time. Blog marketing does this using blogging as your medium. Blogs are a powerful way for businesses to reach and interact with potential customers.

Businesses have adopted blogs to build up their brand and attract new customers. Blog marketing is focused and has a purpose. Your blogging journey begins by choosing a topic that your targeted audience will want to read and that you will enjoy writing about. A blog allows you to converse with your target audience.

Blog marketing is an educational based marketing where you share your opinions, your expertise and your advice. Blogs are not about selling; they are for branding and interacting. Blogs work best when they are added to your website.

The job of your blog is to attract readers. In addition, blogs are a natural link magnet that attracts inbound links if you write interesting, original and engaging posts. Bloggers will then carry these conversations back to their own blogs and of course they will reference your blog posting with a backlink.

Adding “linkable” content to your site is the natural link building method. These backlinks help not only your blog, but also your website if your blog is part of your website.

Blogs are active while websites are passive. Blogs broadcast their content out to the web via RSS every time there is something new. Websites, on the other hand, wait to be discovered by search engine spiders. It’s like the difference between fishing and hunting. You can sit and wait for fish, or you can actively hunt and pursue.

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