Every small business owner craves visibility, stability, and most importantly growth. You want to see your business penetrate new markets, generate more leads, and ultimately covert more sales. That’s why you probably already market on the internet and consistently run promotions, offering tasty discounts to your customers. An additional strategy that could help you get closer to those goals is guest blogging.
Referring to the process where you write content pieces which are then posted on other people/organization’s blogs and vice versa, a guest post service can be a terrific strategy for small businesses. Rather than posting the content pieces you’ve created on your blog, you ask other bloggers if you can post them on their blogs. They too can from time to time request to post their content pieces on your blog.
There are four main advantages of this arrangement for small business owners;
- Boost your SEO
There is nothing more important to your web presence than SEO. Your business lives and dies by it. With great SEO, you website will be easy to find o the crowded web and possibly even appear at the top of search engine result pages. The result is usually increased traffic, increased leads, and a potential increase in sales and revenue.
Guest blogging can be a key pillar to great SEO, especially if you’re posting our content on authority blogs. The more content you write, the more visible your business becomes. If the content is great, you can also expect a surge in your traffic, an increase in your leads, and increased user engagement.
- Get your business in front of an established audience
Aside from boosting your SEO, guest blogging is also good for business because it puts your brand name and products in front of n established audience. This works particularly well is you can consistently post your content on authority blogs.
For instance, if you can guest post for Wall Street Journal, or say Forbes Magazine, you would be putting your brand name in front of millions of serious consumers. If you can wow this audience with your creativity and insight, it could only be a matter of time before those consumers start coming directly to your website.
- Build your social community
Social media has become part and parcel of marketing. Today, you can’t discuss marketing without mentioning networks such as Facebook and Instagram, and for a good reason. These platforms are a prime source of leads and excellent for user engagement.
Guest blogging can a great opportunity to add to your social community. At the end of your post, you can ask readers to follow you on Facebook and Twitter. Many businesses earn tons of traffic this way.
- Build your email list
Finally, guest blogging is an excellent chance for you to add contacts to your email list. At the end of the post, simply ask readers to subscribe to your mailing list. If they were impressed by the post, they will be more than happy to subscribe.
If you’re not taking advantage of guest posting yet, you’re missing out big time. Jump on the bandwagon today. You’ll be glad you did so.