Blogging is it worht it? If so how to blog

Hi Louise,

I pay someone to do all my blogging for me, they write a weekly article and i certainly see the benefits, she writes the articles which are then auto submitted to a dozen or so other social media sites including G+ I see the benefits more or less immediately and certainly overtime. The articles she writes appears regularly for generic search terms so I see the benefit. I use to write it myself but it is so time consuming and mind numbingly boring, I'd rather outsource it and know it was done correctly, in fact I just let her get on with it she does all the research into the particular topic and it works for me. She is in the business directory on here but I've known her for around 15 years, so longer than I've been on here myself...

Hi Louise

I recently started writing my own, which is a legal blog. I've already found that the blog draws traffic to the website, draws traffic to the blog etc.

As Barney says, you can configure social media to auto upload. I'm beginning to understand that the bigger your net footprint, the more traffic you get. After a short time I'm finding it's worth doing, but I've always enjoyed writing. As Barney says, there are plenty of people out there who will produce content for you.

Good luck.

Dean

I too need to start blogging .. I am in the process of changing hosts but as soon as it is all sorted I am going to get blogging ... I was going to use fiverr to get some topics started

Blogging has zero effect on SEO from a "freshness" point of view. This is a myth. 

The benefit (can be) from the keywords you target in a post that go onto rank. 

I've never liked blogging, have never been any good at blogging and never seen any value in it.

In the old days, the blog was the way to communicate your message and have an audience interact with the author.

Then SEO took over the world and blogs turned into keyword spam and the blog churn started.  IMHO these days there are many more avenues for aspiring authors or people wanting to be seen as a credible expert in their field. Place like forums, Facebook or Google communities.

If you want SEO benefits, then you are talking about crafted content about a particular subject optimised for a particular keyword. This doesn't have to be a blog, but ideally needs to be on your website so you get the benefit. This can then be promoted via social media etc to try and draw an audience in.

But if grammar, spelling or style is a concern which you may not want on your main website, then social media is a better avenue. It's more relaxed, forgiving and has potential reach if you are talking to the right audience, eg Facebook groups, Google Communities etc. 

This is interesting as I read somewhere that blogs are the thing to have on your website (or perhaps I was told by someone who writes blogs!) and I was panicking about having to include one on mine. Spelling and grammar are not my problem of course but time is and I am certainly not going to pay someone else to wax lyrical on my behalf!

As a proofreader I would agree with Steve and say that you don't want bad spelling etc on your main website as it undermines your credibility and professional edge, in my opinion.

This is my problem too ,if there is 1 thing in my life I will never be able to do is write a paragraph that makes sense ,when I have tried it looks childish and not really worth much .Spelling isn't the problem I am just not a writer fix things yes ,writer no lol 

Perhaps they meant from a keyword perspective that could help rank the page in search engines.  

However, any blog that isn't consistently updated whether that be once a day, week or month can make a business look "closed" - so if you do decide to do it you need to be disciplined!