Friday, May 8, 2009

Benefits of Having a Blog

By Mark A. Abrahams
So many people talk about different blogs they visit or ones they have these days. If you don't have one, perhaps you've often wondered why people choose to have them. Here are the most popular beneficial reasons that people decide to start blogs:

1. Networking- One of the most compelling reasons that people start their own blog is to reach out and network with the huge internet world. People use blogs to network about their businesses and careers, acquire mentors, and in general: get ahead.

2. Get/Give Advice-Another main reason for blogging is a way to get answers and offer advice to anything and everything. The internet offers an unintimidating environment for exchanging history, failures, successes, and things even as trivial as nail polish colors. It's a way to connect with people and share what you have to offer.

3. Gain Credibility in Your Field- Having a blog gives you a soapbox to demonstrate your knowledge to your industry and possible clients. Many businesses-most-have a blog that they spend time on informing their clients and potential customers of varying aspects of their products, company, and expertise. This kind of approach sells the product soft as the environment is a lot less confrontational and intimidating to customers.

4. Boost SEO Rank- Another popular reason people decide to start a blog is to gain that inbound link to their website that will help with their search engine rank. Though having one inbound link from a related topic blog won't make your position in the search engines shoot up to number one, it will be one more valid link that shows the search engines how potentially relevant you are to their internet searchers.

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