B2B Blogging Best Practices
For some marketers, maintaining top quality blogs are a chore. The process of coming up with a content calendar, finding the right resources, and figuring out the right angle to make the blog much interesting, is such a tough feat.
But no matter how hard it is to maintain a decent and effective blogging tactic, it is still an indispensable method in bringing traffic to your website and to improve your website’s SERP (search engine results page) ranking. Here are some pointers to help you optimize your website’s blog.
Word Length Performances
Truth be told, B2B blogs should be 500 to 1,000 words. Anything that goes beyond 1000 words is draggy, while anything less than 500 isn’t authoritative. In coming up with blogs for the audience whom you treat as potential clients, below are the following details to take note:
The topic should be beneficial to in terms of:
- Their function at work,
- Their output at work
- Image to maintain at work
- Image to maintain in their social sphere
Frequency of Posts
According to one of the leading marketing software provider – Hubspot, companies who published more than 16 posts per month saw traffic increase by 3.5x more than those who only published up to 4 posts per month.
This insight was put into test by an Internet consulting firm – Strategic and below are the findings:
- The number of blog posts on our site grows 6 to 181
- A 1271% increase in traffic
- Organic traffic grows from 143 sessions per month at the outset, to1817 sessions per month in March 2016.
However, the bottom-line that marketers should always keep in mind to make this work is that all blog content should be well written and well mapped to resonate with specific buyers persona challenges of their respective companies. And, should be posted to target and relevant social media channels.
Key Takeaways For Effective B2B Blogs
These statistics show that for B2B blogs to produce best measurable benefit within Inbound marketing campaigns, they should:
Be regular: you should produce close to 16+ per month if possible.
Generally stay around 500-800 words long (though variation is fine!).
Your posts should also be written to address your persona’s common business challenges and be regularly promoted via your own company social media channels.
Quality, persona-targeted blog content can enhance search rank, boost traffic, attract higher quality leads and establish your brand as trusted niche expert.
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To get started with your blogging strategy this 2017, you need to list all the challenges your target personas have and link them to the services or products that your company provides. The end goal ALWAYS is that your offerings (be it a service or product) is the answer to put an end to those business challenges.
If you find it a little rough to get started with blogging, reach out to us. iManila, provides content marketing solutions such as website copywriting, blogging, email newsletters and content writing to pumped-up your content marketing. Call us at (02) 490-0000 or send us an email at [email protected]. You can also visit our website at https://imanila.ph for more information on our services.
Sources:
(1) Hubspot
(2) Strategic Internet Consulting
