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Blending Your Blog Content With Purchased Content



For many website owners, running an online (and perhaps offline) business leaves little time to create their own blog content, at least on a daily basis. There are number of ways deal with this situation.

The first and most obvious is to only post to your blog two or three time per week. In today’s world, it can be quite acceptable However, if you are looking to leverage your blog for search engine traffic then the more content you have, the faster your search engine rankings may climb. It is not only the search engines; the more blog content you can provide the faster you can gain a reputation within your niche.

Other options include buying content. This can be done on a post by post basis, as a series of posts, or as full contract where the blog content is not only supplied; it is created and published on your behalf. They basically manage the blog on your behalf.

What many organizations don’t realize is that you can combine both. You can create your own blog content, say two or three times per week whilst using a bog content service to fill in the gaps. This may be a better alternative for many business owners as they can maintain their own contributions yet have the benefit of daily posting, for less money.

There are many blog content services that will happily negotiate posting timetables and relative costs. You just need to determine how much of your time you can afford to dedicate to creating content. Place a realistic figure on that time and then do a comparison with various content providers. You may be surprised at the low costs involved.

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Use Social Bookmarking To Build Visitor Numbers



Social bookmarking and blogging have built a reputation for unreliability and high bounce rates. If you approach social bookmarking sensibly, this does not need to be the case. You can develop a flow of regular readers over a period of time.

Most bloggers forget the original theme behind social bookmarking – and that is the term social. For many bloggers, they sign on and try to accumulate as many ‘friends’ or contacts as possible. They then spend their time submitting their own content and sending it on to all their friends in the hope they will vote it up.

To be effective, you need to be a little more social. Rather than promoting your own content, you should be on the lookout for content that may interest those you have befriended. Over time you will gain a reputation for only promoting the best content.

Once you have developed the reputation for submitting quality content, slipping your own posts into the submission process will not be a problem, so long as it is quality and of benefit to all. There will be times when you won’t need to submit your own content. Because you are seen as someone who only submits quality content, those who visit your site are quite likely to submit for you if they think it is quality.

Social bookmarking is all about being social and interacting with others on the various sites. Sites such as Digg work very much on a reciprocal basis. If you Digg their quality content, they are likely to Digg yours. Be social and social bookmarking may work for you. Be selfish and the only visitors you get will be the high bounce rate type.

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