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7 Surprising Benefits Of Keeping Your Blog Up To Date

Published 18.03.20
18th March 2020
Last Updated 25.05.22
25th May 2022
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We list 7 great reasons to keep your company blog updated on a regular basis.

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After launching a company blog with a few weeks of killer content, it’s easy to let it fall by the wayside. Everyone assumes that someone else on the team has the time to do extensive research and write some excellent lead-generating content. But without a plan, this may not happen.

Instead of assuming someone else will get around to the blog, there is a simple way to handle blog writing for your website. Assign a different person to write the posts each month, and assume they will take about one day to get all the posts generated.

Most professional bloggers swear by “batch blogging,” where you get started with writing and find yourself finished faster than expected. Switching who writes each month keeps the ideas and style fresh on the blog as well.

Why bother with devoting this much time to the company blog? There are so many good reasons, but here are just a few.

1) Increased Communication Across the Company and Satisfaction for Marketers

One of the most surprising benefits of blogging regularly is that it increases cross-company communication. Your business may be growing, but the more employees you have, the less easy it is to get new information to the right person.

When your staff members know that they will have to write blog posts regularly, they pay attention to the upcoming events and actively reach out for content ideas. This keeps the creative juices flowing and means they will talk to their fellow employees, even from outside of marketing.

Establishing one’s identity as a marketing professional can sometimes be difficult. When you need a constant stream of up-to-date blog posts, your marketers actually get a chance to establish that identity.

They get a chance to take on the persona of your company and write from that perspective, giving them valuable experience and tying them deeply to your brand.

This is an internal benefit, which isn’t to be taken lightly, but the other items even more directly affect the bottom line.

2) Better SEO Rankings for Your Website

Google and other search engines care about how frequently you update your website blog. It shows your site is kept up-to-date, so your site can rank better if it’s regularly updated. In general, having more content optimised for a wider variety of keywords, will also help your site pop up organically on more search engine results pages.

3) Better Information About What Appeals to Your Target Market

When you look at the website analytics page for your various blog entries, you’ll begin to get a very valuable picture of what people do and don’t like.

If you’ve posted 20 posts so far, look at the top 5. Have your team analyse what they have in common. Generally, you’ll get a bit of a brainstorm based on what has turned out to be the most popular content:

  • Do your customers love humorous content
  • Maybe these posts are all practical how-to posts
  • Do your customers linger on “explainer” posts that delve into the nitty-gritty of the product or service

Whatever you learn, work to replicate that success for the next 20 posts and beyond. Re-evaluate periodically and see if there’s even a way to pass this trend analysis on to your product development team.

4) Create Forums for Customer Engagement

Blogs with comment sections offer a valuable opportunity for your team to see what your customers are thinking about. They also let customers interact with, and feel more connected to your brand.

As long as the comments section is positive and constructive, you’ll find that the kinds of users who comment, are also more likely to click around and get to know your company.

5) Build Value for Your Users

Your customers will build a warmer and more positive connection with your brand if they feel like they are being “kept in the loop”. Keep them updated about what is going on at your company.

When true brand loyalty is built, the customer actively wants your company to succeed. One way to do that is by giving them such useful, entertaining, or interesting content that they keep coming back. Then they’re being exposed and re-exposed to information about your product along the way.

6) Go Viral With Shareable Content

Content that is so fun or interesting that readers want to share it on social media, offers you free advertising. The more people share your posts, the closer you get to a “viral” trend.

If you have the good fortune to go viral, your product and service sales will be positively affected by the increased exposure to your brand. But this is more likely if you are constantly adding new high-quality content.

7) Establish Your Industry Authority and the CONTEXT for Your Product/Service

Many people talk about wanting their branded blog to exert “thought leadership” in the industry. Certainly, excellent content can aim for that goal, and many achieve it. You do want to be the place that people go for definitive resources and excellent advice.

One component of thought leadership that many people skim over, is that your blog can create more valuable context for your products or services. Showing people how to incorporate your company’s product into their lives.

Yes, you can do it in a quick call-to-action at the end of the post. But ideally, you should also be engaging them in an imaginative exercise all the way through the posts as well. Keeping an up-to-date blog helps expand the number of people who want to be users of your products and services.

How Much Time Should You Dedicate To Your Blog?

How much time is enough to allocate to this work? It will vary depending on your goals. A good place to start is to aim for one informative blog post per week.

Remember, the same research and work that goes into your blog posts, should be repurposed and repackaged for social media, and email campaigns. Eventually it can be bundled together into content like White Papers and eBooks. This work does take time. But all the benefits we’ve covered are available to you, with just a few hours a week devoted to a high-quality blog post.

In summary, an up-to-date blog is well worth the time it takes to maintain. Because it creates so many other opportunities for value in building your brand. If you want help writing killer blog posts, we have resources to help you get there. Check out our blog post on Generating Content Ideas to Keep Your Blog Up to Date for more information.

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James is a UX specialist and is passionate about delivering better digital experiences. He provides insights on improving conversions, increasing sales and delivering more engaging content.
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