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Your “how to” blog post should teach the reader how to do something by breaking it down into a series of steps.
Begin your blog post by explaining what problem you are going to solve through your explanation and be sure to include any relevant keywords. Add in a personal story to establish your credibility on this topic. And make sure to end your blog post with a summary of what your reader will gain by following your lead.
Need some inspiration? Check out these “How-To” examples from the HubSpot blog:
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Why Aren’t My Blog Posts Generating Any Traffic?
By Marissa Kasarov
We’ve all heard the saying, “if you build it, they will come,” and it’s safe to say that a lot of businesses owners and marketers rely on this theory as it relates to their business and website. Unfortunately, though, that approach isn’t going to get you very far in the world of web traffic and blogging.
There are a number of factors that affect your website traffic and the visibility of your blog posts. If you’re posting regularly but still failing to see an increase in traffic, consider the following traffic influencers:
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How to Drive More Traffic to Your Website
By Marissa Kasarov
Traffic is essential to a website’s success, whether it is a stand-alone ecommerce store or a complement to brick-and-mortar operations. Web traffic creates exposure for your brand and in many cases, it also drives revenue.
The elusive piece of this puzzle, however, is how you should go about attracting visitors to your site. There are countless ways to do this, some of which are not always ethical or productive. So before you purchase website traffic or consider any other similar desperate measures, give these tried-and-true methods a try:
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So Many Marketing Tools, So Little Time!
By Lisa Kirschner
I talk to a lot of marketers each week, and most of them have at least one thing in common: they’re frustrated because they have to use a TON of tools to complete their day-to-day marketing responsibilities.
There are a zillion third-party tools on the market for email marketing, social media, landing pages, forms, analytics, reporting, customer relationship management, ecommerce and many others. And if you’re like most other modern marketers, you have a hard time keeping up with the updates, user interfaces, training and login information for all of those disparate tools.
Often, smaller businesses try to save money by cobbling together low-cost tools and painfully trying hit-or-miss ways to integrate them together, even if they’re not designed to work with one another. Sometimes it works and sometimes results are less than desirable.
