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Blogging can be a great source for traffic to your website and has become a common practice for companies to incorporate into their internet marketing strategy.  In fact, 55% of business that blogs increased traffic to their web site.  As people start to spend more and more time on social media, blogs can attract traffic with specific topics on industry news, reviews, advice, tips and expressing opinions.  Through a blog, you can establish trust between your readers and become the thought leader of your industry.

Blogs are extremely search engine friendly because search engines loves fresh content and can be index in it in a short period of time. Once you have the right keywords or keyword phrases, your blog post can be listed on the first page of the search engine result page which will give you the advantage of driving more traffic to your blog and to your web site.

Blog is also a great medium for you to communicate with your clients and potential clients.  You can post your press release such as a new service or product launch, changes to your business or directions on your future business.  You can hear feedbacks and comments on your blog.  It can be the core to all of your social media platform because you can easy pull the rss feed to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, updating all your profiles with a click of the publish button.

In conclusion, I think blogging is one of the most effective way to drive traffic to your website.  It is free and simple to integrate into your web site.  Contact me if you need help on where and how to start blogging.

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