Some people see blogs as a burden, others as an unnecessary waste of resources; but in truth, you should be looking at your blog as an ideal marketing opportunity.
If you’re not yet a micro-blogger, or even if you are, having a blog on your site can help you to engage with your visitors. It’s an opportunity to show off your expertise and provide further reassurance that you are a reputable firm. All of that of course will help bolster your more overt marketing work.
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In discussion with Channel 4 news, Financial Times editor Lionel Barber suggested that online news sources ought to start charging for their services rather than simply doling them out for free.
The core of his argument appears to be well summarised in this single statement: “We thought that as news organisations we could put our material out on aggregators like Google, attract a big audience and sell advertising on the back of it. In fact what we should have said is: ‘No, information actually has a price – it’s valuable and therefore we should charge for it.”
Not all that long ago all of our news would come from the media. Whether it was the morning newspaper, radio or television, accessing the latest stories was pretty much a standardised formality. However, the rise of the Internet and, more particularly, the blogging community has all but put paid to traditional media sources.
Internet bloggers have a number of advantages over their offline counterparts. First and foremost is the immediacy of the online platform. As soon as a blogger receives a lead they can get started on a post and have it live within seconds. There’s no red tape, no editorial to pass through and no restrictions on content. Almost anything goes on the Internet, something the media can and probably never will be able to replicate.
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Gordon Brown tackled the rise in Internet communication during a speech at the TED Global event currently taking place in Oxford. It’s rare to hear about world leader acknowledging the power of blogs among other things and highlighting how they are disseminating power from an elite few.
Due to the globalisation of Internet technology and the freedom it affords for communication, interaction and marketing the Prime Minister suggested that “foreign policy would never be the same again.”
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According to a new study conducted by Cornell University, highlighted by Search Engine Watch, traditional media sources are still first with the news; surprisingly beating blogs by an average of 2.5 hours. So whilst the immediacy of Twitter has caused serious groundswells in the halls of the major news outlets, it appears that speed isn’t being translated to blogs as yet.
Journalists may be restricted to reporting news that they can unequivocally confirm; however, due to the breadth of their research and reporting power they are still able to get to the stories first. Whilst the newswire may be slowly fading out, it clearly maintains a high level of importance in how soon and how accurate our news is.
We hope that you enjoy reading the information in our blog. It’s intended to be a mix of information for anyone interested in search engine marketing, together with observations and news stories related to the Internet and “search” in particular. We also use it, of course, to announce news related to Impact Media such as when a new client chooses us for their SEO or PPC management.
However, if you’ve read through the information in our blog and are still hungry for more, you really should pay a visit to the BIGLIST of Search Marketing Blogs.
BIGLIST of Search Marketing Blogs
This is a comprehensive resource listing some of the most popular blogs related to the search engine marketing industry and has over 400 entries at the time of writing this post.
