Blogs are likePreventive MaintenanceStuart Smith, MBA, MSEAT
Why is blogging the Preventive Maintenance of Marketing?
Your [insert word] is a SHARK
You need consistencyAnd a Schedule
What is a blog?
CompanyA Permanent Display of Your
ProductA Permanent Display of Your
KnowledgeA Permanent Display of Your
ExpertiseA Permanent Display of Your
Which is the most important to you?CompanyProductKnowledge Expertise
Which is the most important to you?CompanyProductKnowledge Expertise
Which is the most important to your customer?CompanyProductKnowledge Expertise
Which is the most important to your customer?CompanyProductKnowledge Expertise
Why blog?
Establish a web presenceWhy Blog?
Name recognitionWhy Blog?
Subject authorityWhy Blog?
Inexpensive compared to other mediaWhy Blog?
Worldwide reachWhy Blog?
What Makes a Good Blog?
Quality ContentWhat makes a good blog?
LinksWhat makes a good blog?
KeywordsWhat makes a good blog?
Call to ActionWhat makes a good blog?
SEO BasicsWhat makes a good blog?
What is Quality Content?
InformativeQuality Content
ReadableQuality Content
Rarely Mentions product or company nameQuality Content
Interest capturing title and headlinesQuality Content
Has pictures or videosQuality Content
Makes people want to respond or know moreQuality Content
Why Are Links Important?
Links tell the search engines what is important about your webpageLinks
Links point readers to important pages and information Links
1 link per 150-200 wordsLinks
Link to web pages, other blogs, referencesLinks
Links need to be coded (html) correctlyLinks
Find out more at http://www.mintek.com/Bad
Learn more about better asset maintenance Good
Keywords
Words or short phrasesKeywords
Use keywords in titles, headings links and bodyKeywords
Call to Action
Designed to stimulate a responseCall to Action
Place toward the end of a blogCall to Action
SEO Basics
Subject matter is only half a blogSEO Basics
Html coding is the other halfSEO Basics
Good/clean coding can add 1-2 hours to each blogSEO Basics
Proper coding is needed for many itemsSEO Basics
Pictures – “Alt tags”SEO Basics
Quotes – Blockquote and source htmlSEO Basics
LinksSEO Basics
Headings – H1,H2,H3 tagsSEO Basics
AbbreviationsSEO Basics
Getting read
ConsistencyGetting Read
Time Getting Read
Use social mediaGetting Read
RSS feedsGetting Read
Guest bloggingGetting Read
Examples of a good blog
CopybloggerHubSpotExamples of a good blog
Enterprise Asset Management 101The Entrepreneur’s AdvisorExamples of a good blog
Blogging Platforms
wordpress
hubspot
There is no easy button
Questions

Blogs are like Preventive Maintenance

Editor's Notes

  • #4 Hint: They Die if They Aren’t MovingSharks Die if They Aren’t MovingYour Assets Die if they aren’t MaintainedYour Marketing is Ineffective if it isn’t Reinforced
  • #16 A website using a blog can will increase its Internet traffic by 55% and can expect the number of inbound links to increase by approximately 100%
  • #28 Informative – industry or product news, current events, disasters, holidays, humor
  • #29 Readable – 2-3 sentences per paragraph, use of easy to identify lists or charts, written to readership reading level
  • #31 Headlines – which catches your attention more – “Slaying the Maintenance Dragon” or “Maintenance problems”
  • #39 Link coding – 90% of all blogs I read have poor coding. A good link contains a keyword and a title. The title what you see when you hover over the link. The title gives you extra SEO juice.
  • #43 that you want to be known for and rank on search engines for
  • #50 Because Google and other search engines read the html of your page – not the content
  • #51 A good 800-1000 word blog make take 4-6 hours to research, write and code
  • #59 Writing calendars
  • #60 Establishing a web presence takes time – 9-18 months
  • #61 Twitter – all new postsLinkedIn – Publish to relevent groupsBuzz yahoo, Google buzz, Stumbleupon, Digg etc…Professional Associations
  • #62 Make sure readers can subscribe to your blog
  • #63 Accept and offer for others – develops connections, credibility and links