Saturday, December 11, 2010

fresh content for your blog

Blog owners know just how important fresh content is. Fresh content is something you have written and post regularly to your blog for your visitors to see. Make sure you don't use PLR on your blog; that's just tacky. Your visitors will catch on quick and won't be back to visit your blog. Some black-hat sites will stoop so low as to steal content off other blogs and post it on theirs. Stay as far away from this practice as possible.

So, where do you get ideas for fresh content? Well, it really depends upon what your blog is all about. One thing you could do is to read the news and then give a review or opinion about something in the news.

If you like to read and review books, then choose something off the bestseller list or go to your local library and find something interesting or strange. People like to read about unusual things, too. Then do a book review on what you have read. If you are monetizing your blog, then you could also put a link there for your reader to buy that book. Maybe your review will interest them so much that they want to immediately click on the button and buy that book. You have just created another satisfied customer.

If you really think about it, there are 4 things available on the internet, and they are information, products, advertising and services. Some are at no cost and some you have to pay for. A blog offers its readers some great information usually at no monetary cost. The only investment is the time it took to read it. If they like what they've read then they will keep coming back for more. If they offer a great service such as search engine optimization from Lethbridge SEO, then the customer will always come back. Some people have great success by selling physical products on their blog. Then there's the advertising component. Some businesses use internet advertising to send customers to their website or to their local business location. On the other end of that stick are people looking for something in particular and they look at the advertising in order to find it.

When building and marketing your website take into consideration the type of customer you think you are looking for. Then you will have a better idea of how to structure your website and what kind of advertising to use.

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