In this post I’m going to speak about how to create an online community through your blog. Creating an online community is what generates consistent traffic. I will start high and come back down. Before starting we need to be sure we understand the basics of the actual content you should to be curating and also how to create winning headlines.

Part 1 – The Basics of Search Engine Optimization

Its important when you are thinking about what content to curate you are answering questions your customers might actually have. For instance no one really cares when your company takes water breaks, but if you have a special system around the rehydration of your company to ensure proper health procedures; that would be something very interesting your audience would enjoy reading.

Your blog post titles should exactly match the questions your company is most frequently asked.  Whatever you can write about which you believe may help people in any way.  Answer every question you can think of as completely as you possibly can, and maintain that mindset while you’re writing them. I like at least 500 words and usually no longer than 1,500 words.

Remember to cater to your audience.  The effort you put into each blog post directly correlates to whether or not they read another article, or click on your ‘about page’–to better understand who you are–because they want to do business with you.  Every time your post is read it determines if that person, or someone in that person’s network will eventually become your customer.  Blogging is huge, much larger than even I could possibly imagine in terms of how the content you write helps your business, and really your identity to grow. <More advanced reading on this topic>

Now that we’re up to speed and have the right content in our blog’s database of articles its time to learn about the backlink. I want to speak on why its an important concept to learn and know about the backlink so you have a more clear picture for how to approach your mindset to blogging.

Part 2 – So What Is This Backlinking Thing?

First let me further explain the philosophy behind curating a great blog post.

We know your posts should answer the question in your headline as thoroughly and completely as possible, so what? While you’re answering said questions as thoroughly as possible you are absolutely going to be crossing over into other parts of your business.

Lets say for example that in 1 of your 3 bullet points (from any particular article you’re writing) you have (in a previous blog post) gone into much more detail. The trick here is to “backlink” other articles you’ve already previously written in effort to further educate your reader if they would like to manifest further in that direction. Its catering to your customers fully, and being intentional about why you are serving them.

The purpose of your blog isn’t something you have to do. Its something you get to do.

Because your intent is to help people by answering their questions as thoroughly as possible, that means you not only get the freedom to backlink, you are actually helping out your reader ‘get up to snuff’ much more quickly than if they were simply searching your blog’s database.  This act of backlinking is being intentional about several things.

• To drive more traffic to your blog.  More reads on your articles that means people are staying on your website longer, which means two things.
  • You are passively helping people with articles you’ve written ages ago.
  • You are getting your customers to establish a closer relationship with you.

Not only that, because they were in-the-moment of reading your article and were enlightened by your bullet point they have a strong natural instinct to want to learn more about said specific point–if the information is available to them. So if one of the three bullet points was extraordinarily enlightening to the reader, and there was a backlinked article attached, the reader can then further their reading and be better for it.

The best part about all of this is that after you write the article you’re done.  Now its time to learn about what to do after you’ve published your blog post. That’s why it’s essential to get SEO services such as seo services link building for they can monitor your backlink profile for you.

Now Its Your Turn

What tricks for inserting back-links have you used in your blog?