If you’re a business owner or a marketer thinking about working with a blogger you need to be sure you ask the right questions before hiring them so you can ensure you’ve got the right person for your blog. But what should you ask a blogger before you start working with them so you can be confident they’ve got what it takes?
Do I Need A Blogger Or A Content Marketer?
I don’t remember when I first heard the word blog or blogging, however, I do remember back then it was a ‘weblog’ before it was truncated to blog and I remember it was something that people did in their spare time and was something of questionable value.
How Can I Tell If My Blogger Is Any Good?
So you’ve employed an SEO Copywriter to start producing blogs for your website in order to boost your website’s traffic, and thus get you more new customers.
Good move; you’re already on the right step to grabbing those top rankings for your keywords on Google!
But how can you tell if the blogger you’ve employed to write your blogs is any good? Well, luckily for you, there are a couple of key benchmarks that will help you tell whether your SEO Copywriter is da bomb, such as whether or not your blogs are uploaded on time, whether the spelling, grammar and punctuation is correct, and whether your copywriter is writing about the type of subjects that will interest your audience.
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What’s The Point Of Blogging?
It’s a very good question isn’t it?!
I’m an SEO Copywriter by trade (or, at least, I was, before I became the MD of GrowTraffic…now I’m the MD who tries to do some SEO Copywriting when they let me!), and so writing blogs is one of the things I like to do bestest of all.
In fact, if you just left me to my own devices, I’d sit here and write blogs all day long.
“But why?” I hear you cry! What’s the point of all this blogging? What purpose are you serving the universe? Why do it to yourself?
Well my young Padawan, I shall tell you.
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Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves: Women In SEO
Are you singing the song yet? If you’re not, you should be! Aretha should be blaring out in your ears as loud as possible. Go on, sing it loudly. Let that woman stare at you.
OK, that’s enough. Don’t get carried away.
Because, difficult as it is to believe, I’m not just writing this blog post as a tribute to the late, great Aretha Franklin. Although I probably should be; she deserves it.
But no, on this occasion, I’m writing about the fact that we, the GrowTraffic dream team, are a group of four women, fighting our corner in a very male dominated world. We’re independent women in SEO. And we love it. Read more
What Are The Benefits of Blogging?
What Is A Blog?
This week’s blog is about guess what? Blogging!
Which kind of makes sense, seeing as I have been writing blogs for Grow Traffic for a few weeks now, and I haven’t really understood the benefits, other than to indulge my love of writing for my favourite SEO company, and get paid for the privilege! Win win I say!
But before we look at the benefits of blogging, who will read your blog, and how to begin if you’ve never ventured in to blogging before but want to get started, we need to look at what actually is a blog? Read more
Why Do I Need Words And Pictures On My Website?
As anyone who knows me will tell you, I’m a Words Person. Not a Numbers Person – as my son is keen on reminding me – and rarely even a Pictures Person – if you’re going to stick me in an art gallery, you’re going to have to explain to me what I’m looking at. But give me words – anyone’s words; Shakespeare’s, Duffy’s, Attwood’s, hell, even Val McDermid’s – and I’m in heaven. Read more
GrowTraffic’s Plans for 2018
Just because we have nothing better to do with our weekends, on Saturday just gone we had our monthly GT planning meeting. I know, we’re riotous.
Who’s Actually Reading Your Blog?
I have both written and read many blogs in my time about how you should tailor your blog posts to your ideal customer, the idea being that you research thoroughly who your core customer base is and then envisage a single customer who embodies all the characteristics of that customer base. Kind of like what the politicians do – talk to ‘Middle England’. Read more
Vote For GrowTraffic
GrowTraffic Have Joined Fuel My Blog
In line with our new policy of practicing what we preach, GrowTraffic has joined Fuel My Blog!
Fuel My Blog is a social network for the blogging community; you can not only read our blog but you can also find many other great blogs on almost any subject that interests you. You can even upload your own blog, if you’re also part of the blogging generation.
The great thing about Fuel My Blog is that bloggers are encouraged to make ‘friends’, who can then vote for your blog to boost its profile and increase its readership.
Vote For GrowTraffic (Please)
Obviously, we want to increase GrowTraffic’s blog’s readership too, so we’re shamelessly campaigning for your vote to help put the GT blog on the map. If you could spare a moment, then we would be eternally grateful if you could take a moment to sign up to Fuel My Blog and give us your vote.
We’ll Pay You Back
To show our appreciation, if you let us know once you’ve cast your vote, then we’ll vote for your blog in return – now you can’t say fairer than that, can you? You can email either Rachel at rw@growtraffic.co.uk or Simon at sd@growtraffic.co.uk.
Thank you so much for your support and stay tuned for more amazing GT blogs! Ha!