When it comes to blogging, you might be thinking, “my blog is only one in a million blogs out there. How can I be found?” I hate to break it to you but it’s actually more like one in 200 million! Yikes! Numbers can be mind boggling. I knew there were a lot of blogs out there in the world, but just a cursory amount of research has yielded numbers that make my brain hurt. At the end of 2011, an independent company called NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company, tracked over 181 million blogs around the world, up from 36 million in 2006. If it was 181 million in 2011, then my guess of 200 million today is probably understated! Internet marketing is big business, and blogging is a key strategy in internet marketing.

So there is a lot of talk out there these days about the importance of blogging as a key part of your internet marketing strategy. I know we talk about blogging just about every day here at the Bubble, where we are blogging like crazy and often helping our clients to blog when they are too overworked to keep up on regular writing. The team here at the Bubble has moved to the place where they are now requiring all of us to blog. Personally, I liked it better when it was the boss’s job (just sayin’), but due to the central role of blogging in developing your online presence, the team has decided all of us should get to play!

Remember These 5 ‘R’ Words and You'll Learn How to Blog Effectively in No Time!

I had a high school English teacher who taught me that one of the keys to writing, is to write what you know. For some reason, that has always stuck with me. Maybe it’s because I’ve always loved writing, and recognize that good writing is done by an author who knows what they’re talking about. I didn’t know then that I would be writing as an internet marketing consultant who would have to learn how to blog effectively. Heck, blogging was barely a thought when I was in high school (and I’m not that old) but this mantra can be used just as much for blogging as it can for high school English papers. In fact, I’m using that mantra as we speak; it just so happens I’m writing what I know about blogging for this very blog. Oh the irony!

Increase your website’s ability to get more clients by getting more people to stick around 

So now that you have used your blog to rank higher in Google and you are getting more traffic, what is the next piece of advice from your personal Internet Marketing Consultant?  Engage them, and quick! Be clear. Be relevant. Be helpful. If you focus on these 3 things then you can’t help but get a greater percentage of people to stay on your site and actually read what you wrote. But what do these 3 things really mean? Let’s talk about it.

How Blogging Attracts New Clients
and Fuels Your Internet Marketing

Your blog is the center of your internet marketing strategy. It is both a magnet and the fuel for all kinds of fantastic and incredibly important pieces of achieving your goal to get more clients or more customers. The blog allows you to do so many things that are important to your internet marketing strategy, and any Internet Marketing Consultant would be completely remiss if they did not recomend that it be near the center of any strategy you adopt. Look at what having a blog will do for you and your business.