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One of the most effective ways you can get yourself (and your business) noticed on the web without getting drown out by the sheer size of the medium. Don’t kid yourself – you may be one of the best in your industry, but if potential clients can’t find you, being the best does you no good.

Here are seven simple tips for blogging your way into your clients’ (and search engine!) awareness:

1. Stand out in the crowd. If you write about the same things other people write about, then you offer nothing new – and people want to read something new. Be sure to offer fresh ideas to your readers in every post.
2. Don’t be too formal. Unlike the conventional approach to website content, blogs offer a more informal and relaxed medium that your customers can relate to on a more personal level.
3. Use the right keywords. Including targeted keywords in your content will make your blog more searchable by search engines, and more likely to pop up in users’ searches for your subject matter.
4. Host the blog on your own domain. This gives you the SEO benefit from the traffic the blog will generate. Also, make sure that the blog is easily accessible – fresh, regularly updated content is useless if it’s hard to find.
5. Be active. Promote yourself in social networking sites and other blogs, as well as discussion boards and forums related to your market and audience. If your content is good, and the blog regularly updated, people will keep coming back and the search engines will notice.
6. Invite popular guest bloggers. Seek out established bloggers and invite them to publish a guest post on your blog. This will help attract their followers to your blog. Just make sure that you iron out details with guest bloggers, such as your right to edit their content if necessary.
7. Exchange links with other blogs. You scratch their back, they scratch yours. It also helps to attach your blog URL in your email signatures and your signature in discussion boards and forums. If you’re targeting local traffic, seek out link exchanges with local outfits as well. Inbound links are one of the keys to getting to the top of search results.

To be sure, blogging can be hard work, especially if you’re just starting out. But if you play your cards right, you can build a sizeable audience that will make the effort well worthwhile and help drive your website to the top of the search results.

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