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Blogging for Business

Business Blogging

Blogging for Business

Written by Kathryn Lang for Gaebler Ventures

Blogging can open new doors for your business as an entrepreneur. It gives you online connections to an almost limitless pool of potential customers.

Blogging about your business as an entrepreneur may seem out of the ordinary for your niche or industry. The internet expands the customer base for all businesses and allows you the opportunity to build up your expertise in a given field.

Creating regular content for your website with blogging helps to increase your placing in the search engines. Providing relevant and helpful content will give your visitors incentives to pass along your website and also to return your website time and again.

Writing a blog starts with building a blog. Some hosting companies will offer software that allows the development of a blog. Wordpress and Blogger also offer free options for hosting and writing a blog. Most of the software is relatively easy to use, even for a beginner with internet technology. The host company or a web designer can also help you develop the site that fits your needs.

Developing the right blog for your company will depend on your niche. There are a few things to consider when you are designing, uploading and writing.

A good blog starts with a solid name. Choose a domain name that fits your niche or get a domain by the same name as your business. Make your blog title similar to the domain name (or the same name when possible) or one that includes keywords from the niche.

All web access are not created equal. A website that is crowded with images, ads and other items that take time to download might force visitors to wait too long for your website. Visitors leave before the process is complete. A clean a simple design loads faster and gives you room to expand your blog and website as you become more comfortable with the medium.

Good content can be one of the most valuable parts of any blog. Give visitors something that they are unable to find elsewhere on the internet.

Make your website more appealing to visitors by providing consistent content. How often you post will depend largely on your niche. The key to consistent content lies in publishing content for your entrepreneurial website on the same day of the week (or days of the month).

Kathryn Lang is a professionial writer and motivational speaker. She enjoys writing about a wide variety of business topics including youth businesses and finance.