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Business blogging can be a productive part of a digital marketing plan. Follow these top 10 business blogging best practices to improve your chances of getting the results you seek. Presentation developed by author, speaker and digital marketing agency CEO, Bernie Borges.

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Business Blogging Goals

Digital Strategy Why they are important

SEO Best Practices What they are

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editorial

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Digital Strategy: What is your word cloud Holy Grail?

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1. Find one keyword theme or variant to rally content messaging around.

2. Keyword should be in 4 places:o URLo Titleo First paragrapho Last paragraph

3. Keywords work best towards beginning of title – if possible4. First link should ALWAYS be to a webpage or another blog

post5. Anchor text should link to a page with the anchor text or

part of the anchor text in linking page Title6. Meta description must contain keyword – this is your 150

character pitch about your content

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Top 10 Business Blogging Best Practices7. Categories and tags serve 2 masters: user experience and search

engines (visit website) Categories – broad Tags – specific searchable keywords that are on page

8. Choose the most relevant Category9. It’s ok to tell readers how CH is compiling the data that the blog is

about (in the first paragraph A little advertorial can be good without compromising quality of article

10. Keep your headliner (H1) short Use a subtitle to explain more about it

11. Don’t get stuck using the same keyword over and over. Develop a diverse collection of relevant keywords.

12. Great data – but how can this data help me?13. Invite comments and feedback.14. NO DUPLICATE CONTENT

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Brand Your Blog

Select a theme for your blog and brand it!

Allocate prime real estate for brand marketing through posters.

Provide a brief description of your blog and topic categories.

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Selling a Blog Post Summary

Objective Engage your audience Drive them to learn more

Excerpt Content Provide a teaser Compel reader to read entire article

This is your excerpt

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Link to relevant posts or internal website pages using relevant anchor

text

Offer social sharing icons

Use headings to break up the text. Make for an easy reading experience.

Use a featured image to make the post visually

interesting.

Make Your Blog Friendly

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Always Have a Call to Action

Use a graphical image in your call to action

Use bolded, capitalized text to support your call

to action

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Use Facebook Comments

Set up Facebook comments to allow

people to comment in their Facebook profile

Respond to comments in a conversational manner.

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Engagement DiscoverabilityFour Search Engine Drivers

Quality Content Page and site relevancy Share Worthiness Answering questions

Remember Your Business Blogging Objective

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