99 Ways To Blog for Businesses

Powerpoint: Introduction To RSS

My friend Anita Campbell has a great site at www.rssnofear.com, and she's recently released an even greater Powerpoint presentation about RSS, for those of you who need to know more about it. Get the presentation here.

Corporate Business Blogging Tips & Tricks

Clickz is great. (Disclaimer, I used to write there). Every day I get new content that is beyond helpful and full of great tips and tricks that help me grow my mind. Case in point, today I read a piece entitled 'Quick Tips on Corporate Blogging' by Mark Kingdon.

If your company doesn't have a corporate blog, you should seriously consider developing one. Coupled with your Web site, it's a great way to create a dialogue with customers and employees.

Indeed Mark, indeed. Mark continues to create a primer for any CEO or corporation who wants to think about blogging. This is good stuff. Full content can be found on the article.

• Designate an editor.
• Don't be too precious about it, but do have a purpose.
• Content is king.
• Develop a content engine.
• Have an editorial policy.
• Experiment, learn, and evolve.
• Make it a core part of your marketing strategy.
• Be patient and watch your audience grow.
  
  Corporate blogs are the new faces of business. Customers, employees, and those interested in your business want authentic dialogue, real insights, and a fresh perspective. Give it to them with a blog.

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Small Business Blogging Book

Andy Wibbels is a blogging guru who has a great new blog book out built for small businesses entitled 'Blog Wild, A Guide for Small Business Blogging'. I highly reco mmend this book. Of course, if you want to just get a a professional small-business blog up and running without having to read Andy's book, now you can, for only $999 at Blog4999.com :)

What's Blogwild! about?

Blogwild! is a book about blogging for small businesses. Combining the concept and theory of blogs with the practical nuts-and-bolts, you'll be able to get started immediately. With Blogwild! you'll be able to publish your first blog in the time it takes to watch a sitcom. Blogwild! is published by Porfolio, an imprint of Penguin Group.

Who's Andy Wibbels?

I'm am an award-winning blogging evangelist that has been blogging for five years and teaching companies all over the world how to use blogs for the past three years. I was named "Best Marketing Blog of 2005" by Marketing Sherpa and have appeared in national and international media as an expert in blogging for business. I am creator of the Easy Bake Weblogs, Podcasting Bootcamp, RSS Essentials seminars as well as co-creator of Six Figure Blogging, Blog Your Way to a Best Seller and Business Blog Basics.

Search Engines Love Blogs - Optimization Techniques

The Search Engine Journal has a good article entitled 'Blog Optimization - Make Your Blog Stand Out'.

Why optimize your blog?

* Increase rankings of the blog on BOTH regular search engines as well as blog/RSS search engines
* Increase traffic to the blog from multiple sources such as social search (Yahoo MyWeb, Google Personalized Search) and social bookmarking sites (del.icio.us, Digg, Furl or Blogmarks)

A blog is just a website that uses a content management system, so most standard SEO tactics apply.

How very true. If you are thinking about creating a blog, you MUST consider one of the very best uses of your blog to obtain higher search engine rankings, because it works.

The article goes on to talk about other blog search engine optimizationt techniques you can do yourself. I highly suggest you follow his advice. Of course, you can always let me build a business-blog for you and I can do ALL OF THIS AND MORE for you for only $999.