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Update your Blog and get shares…

Blog

If you are a musician and don’t already have an online blog, you should seriously consider starting one and keeping it up to date!

Here we discuss how maintaining a quality blog can help your business and some tips on how to go about creating engaging posts to encourage shares on social media.

Why running a blog could help your business…

  • Build traffic to your web site
  • Establish your industry expertise
  • Get rich snippets in search engines
  • Build authorship trust
  • SEO benefits
  • Generate more quality leads
  • Get content shared to social media
  • Blogs are link bait
  • Get feedback from users via comments
  • Shows your site is “alive & kicking”!
Blog writing

Write engaging posts that get shared…

  • Write titles that grab your attention
  • Keep your posts about one topic, short and to the point
  • Talk about issues that users of your site will be interested in
  • Be professional but don’t be afraid to use humor or write in a more “conversational style”
  • Add share / like buttons to your blog to allow users to vote for good content
  • Allow comments and reply to them in a timely manner – subscribe by email
  • Ask your friends to add a comment when they genuinly like something
  • Include your authorship info and contact details
  • Don’t waffle – content is normally “scanned” on the internet
  • Use bullet points and lists!

If you liked these tips please leave a comment below – thanks 🙂

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