When it comes to trying to promote your business in an organic way, corporate blogging is possibly the best tool that you can use. This is one of the easiest ways to implement SEO on your site with little effort and a blog has the added benefit of being incredibly powerful in other areas as well. Let’s take a look at just a few of the ways that a corporate blog can work to produce great SEO results.

1. More content equals more discoverability.

Each blog post you make works in your favor with search engines. You’ll be covering more topics, using more keywords and giving search engines more to index. This will result in higher rankings on a wide variety of topics and will make it easier for new customers to discover your blog. Most search engines index blogs regularly and it’s very easy to nab that top spot when you are using this technique.

For example, let’s say that your company specializes in the sale of tennis rackets. You post a blog about Wimbledon. Your blog post gets ranked with this keyword as well as several others for the industry. Now, when someone does a search for Wimbledon, that blog post of yours is going to show up in the results. You’re reaching someone that is already interested in tennis and providing them with a resource that they can really use.

2. Frequent content = more frequent indexing.

Search engines use spiders to index web pages. Pretty much every site out there will get indexed at least once, but only those that update on a regular basis will get frequent indexing. By publishing a regular blog, you will start attracting those spiders on a daily or weekly basis. This means that instead of having to wait for six months to roll over until the spider comes back around, your content will be indexed almost immediately.

3. More pages = more search engine interest.

Most corporate sites are pretty static and cover the usual general information about a company. That’s not very interesting for search engines that are looking for dynamic content that people want to read. By adding more pages that cover several different topics, you are just making it so much easier for these spiders to want to add your content.

In addition, instead of the usual 5 to 10 pages for a site, you’ll be building up several every month. This just increases your chances of getting a better ranking and being able to have your pages show up with many different keywords.

When you’re starting a corporate blog it is a good idea to hire someone that has experience in handling SEO. When you get started on the right foot with a service that knows how to optimize your blog for the best results, you will see much quicker results and your blog will begin attracting more attention on a regular basis. A blog is a powerful tool, but only when it is used correctly.

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Originally posted 2008-06-20 05:11:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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