Last week one of my colleagues posted an article to BFM’s Business Learning Center entitled “How To Write a Blog That Drives Traffic to Your Website and Revenue to Your Business“. The article is a fantastic guide to creating a great blog for you business. If you still aren’t convinced that your company needs a blog, here are some numbers that should help you make up your mind.

An analysis of 1,531 web-marketing clients showed a huge difference between those who blog and those who do not. Here is the key info:

• 55% More Visitors for Companies That Blog (a measurement of the number of people that visit any page of a company’s site)
• 97% More Inbound Links (other sites linking to any page of a company’s site)
• 434% More Indexed Pages (how many of a company’s pages can be found on Google/Yahoo!/Bing)

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