Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The Value of Content Marketing in Your Blog

Content marketing is a huge buzzword nowadays, and has even spawned a wave of expert sites like Copyblogger and Copyhackers. Trawling through the content marketing advice offered by such sites is incredibly time consuming and it can also be difficult to get to grips with the techniques if you do not have professional writing experience. 

Most Advice is Needlessly Quirky
The advice on content marketing websites is often sensationalist in nature and needlessly quirky, choosing to tell you about terms and methods you are not familiar with. In a world where everybody wants to use ten words when three will do, here is the most important advice for you to follow: content marketing matters.

Make a Difference with Your Own Blog
When your business requires extensive content marketing to be performed, creative copywriting services are the most effective approach. However, you can make a difference simply by updating your blog a few times and providing interesting information for your website visitors. 

You Have Expertise to Share
Naturally, you will possess a significant degree of experience in your field, which plenty of people will be interested to read. As long as you have reasonable writing skills and have your blog articles proofread by another person, there is no reason why they won’t be read. Just don’t make the deadly error of avoiding subheadings.

Blog Articles Must be Accessible
The most arrogant mistake in blogging is to assume that people are willing to read the entire articles. Honestly, most people will not read all of your articles. That being said, you can get your message across by avoiding the catastrophic mistake of writing huge chunks of unbroken text. 

Break Up Chunks of Text
Simply by using subheadings to break up your content, you will make it more digestible for readers. Already you will be increasing the likelihood of holding interest. However, you will still be missing out on connecting with some readers on a deeper level. Thankfully, however, you will have reached them to a small degree.

Subheadings Form the Big Picture
By using carefully chosen subheadings to tell your story, you can guide a reader through by giving them the broad strokes. Essentially, they can dip into your article and read a summary of the information contained within. Subheadings can tell the story if you write them with just a little thought.

Start Winning Attention
If you are lucky enough, this might even encourage them to read some – or even all – of the article, when otherwise they would have left straight away. Follow this advice and use your blog to enter the content marketing game for the long-term benefit of your website.

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