6 Ways to Kill Your Blog
Article by Brennan Girdler from socialmediopolis.com
The importance of blogging cannot be stressed enough in the social-content marketing arena. If you’re at all familiar with Internet advertising (which I assume you are) you’d know that a well-formed, high-end business blog is capable of pushing a brand’s products and services into the customers’ view more than pay-per-click advertising, social media, and other online marketing techniques.
As a blogger-for-hire, I’ve come to realize the most critical aspect that separates the good and the other business blogs: Mistakes.
It’s not easy to write informative, engaging content from your brand’s perspective to attract online readers. But instead of going into content creation and the finer points of blog promotion, I thought I’d share my 6 biggest pet peeves, flops, and fails of blogging that make the entire point moot.
1. Not knowing your place.
Smaller businesses — especially those in niche industries like concrete supply or whatever the case may be — are pups in the blogging community. To effectively write content that helps you show up in local searches that answers questions, you need to understand your place in the market and the customers you’re after.
If I went to some niche business blog, for instance, I’d expect to find posts that are about that specific industry and business, not posts written to cash in on link-bait and unrelated hot topics.
2. Utterly terrible design.
This isn’t 1997 anymore. Smaller companies no longer need to ask Billy, the high school sophomore down the street, to make a website for them.
WordPress is, in my opinion, both the bane and boon of blogs. On one hand, a semi-decent theme can be turned into a colorful, well-designed website that allows writers to easily post and manage content. On the other hand, pre-made themes may lead to laziness. How many blogs have you visited with pre-formatted feature images, anyway?
3. Cluttered content, messy features.
“Clutter” includes two different elements:
- Content: Cluttered content is dense, unspecific, and illustrates that a business blogger is just trying to put words on a page.
- Features: Features include side bars and navigation, social media buttons, and other aspects on a blog.
Both types of clutter lead to unprofessional blogs. You don’t want people winding up on your page and comparing you to the hobby blogger, do you?
4. Inconsistent posting.
Consistency is what I use to tell if a blog is actively attempting to use content to capture readers and — hopefully — leads. Often, overwhelmed marketers will publish posts infrequently, like every other month or so, or whenever their boss tells them to get back at it.
It is crucial for bloggers to set calendars and stick to them, otherwise known as the only way to attract return readers.
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