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Business blogging and SEO

One of my clients emailed me the other day about SEO in relation to her business blog... I will give her a more comprehensive answer by email, but this conversation over on Mike Sansone's ConverStations echoes a lot of my thoughts on the matter, as far as business blogging is concerned at least. I do think its useful to understand how to use keywords in your posts and be putting them in the title, body and keywords boxes, but I also agree that you can get too hung up on these things.

I was chatting to another business blogger the other day and they told me how many page views per day they were getting (it's about 3 times what I get), but they don't seem to be converting many of those viewers to clients.

Commenting on blogs - how best to do it

Interesting issue for Typepad users came up out of a comment to an old post about comments and trackbacks and a subsequent email from one of my more recent completed projects... I think its worth sharing here.

My client, Joanna, had explained to me that she hadn't been able to work out how to leave her URL behind when she commented on other Typepad blogs. I couldn't work out where the confusion was, because at the time, I couldn't see how you could fail - there are only 4 fields to fill out in Typepad... (click on picture left to see what they are).

Business Blog Angel at Corporate Podcasting Summit

A real quickie today...  I'm currently doing some really exciting work for new and existing clients, I have a new Podcast Production Company to develop, a new PC, a new (and quite wonderful) boyf and I took 2 days out to go (and speak) at the Corporate Podcasting Summit earlier this week. As a result, I'm struggling a bit with time management.

One of the things I wanted to achieve in moving to Wales, was to have more time for 'fun & recreation', rather than working into the small hours as I used to do as a single Londoner. This is totally doable, but typically, I burn the candle at both ends and then wonder why my productivity levels plummet. I must get more sleep!  Anyway...

Check this link... it will take you to a page where you can download a montage of one of the round table discussions at the European Corporate Podcasting Summit. Not sure I agree with everything that's being said there and will blog more about that over at www.PodcastProductionCo.com just as soon as I've cleared my backlog.

Blogs & Podcasts as Corporate Tools (Blogging for Business podcast #3)

I'm always banging on about how blogs and podcasts are one of the most effective ways to build your brand - and as far as ROI goes, it wipes the floor with most other options.

Well, it's been a long time coming... and here, in episode 3 of Blogging for Business, Consultant Anna Farmery shares not only her own success with blogs and podcasts as a tool to grow her business - The Engaging Brand - but also, how she is helping big business with Training & Development and Internal Communications - using blogs, podcasts and other social media.

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Instant Audio - love it or hate it?

Following on from my last post about the value of audio on your blog (site), I came across a really interesting discussion over on Suzanne Falter-Barns's Get Known Now blog about whether people like websites that instantly play audio...

Suzanne reports on a recent survey carried out by Tessa Stowe of SalesConversation.com in Australia which found that only 13.6% of repondents like automatic audio. I just left a comment saying that it's an absolute 'no-no' for me. If I land on a site with instant audio, I back out immediately deciding that this is a person whose opinion (ergo character) I cannot trust.  I'm not saying that I'm right to think that, but I do. I find it discourteous. Let me decide if I want to listen to 'your' audio. 

What's your opinion? Love it? Hate it? Live with it?
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