What To Blog About?

As some of you know I do a lot of freelance copywriting for websites, blogs, press releases, sales letters and article directories, etc. Last week a client asked me THE question I get at least once a week, “How do you know what to blog or write about?”. I write about what the client wants me to write about. I’m a fricking freelance writer.

No, no, no he spews out with some disdain. “I mean for your own stuff, you know for your blog.”. “Oh! I write about people that ask me stupid questions”, I said. He chuckled and stared at me with that look of anticipation a child has on Christmas morning when staring at the presents under the tree. I felt like shit. This guy was serious. “Well, I write about whatever I feel like writing about.”

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The Big, Bad List of Pre-SEO Questions You Need to Answer, Part II

March 17, 2009 · Filed Under SEO · Comment

From Stoney deGeyter on Search Engine Guide

One method of getting SEO accomplished is through a combination of resources. In this post we will talk about handling SEO in-house and deciding if a combination strategy might be the best.

This is a continuing series of questions that you need to ask yourself before you engage in SEO strategies or services. Part I started off with Questions that need to be answered if you in-source your SEO campaigns. We specifically addressed questions regarding attempting to perform SEO yourself.

Question 12: Do I sub-out part of it and do the rest myself? If you’ve determined that doing the SEO yourself, in addition to your other duties, will be too much of a burden, you might consider splitting the duties between yourself and someone else. The benefit here is that you’re not taking on the full work-load yourself, you can delegate what you don’t want, or even get outside professional advice.

Question 13: Do I delegate in-house or use sub-contractors? If you have a team of people already it could be to your benefit to assign one or more of them partial SEO duties. Of course the workload of each employee must be considered as well as not to give them more work than they can handle effectively. You also have the option of using sub-contractors and outside experts which can keep your team free to do their primary jobs.

Question 14: What parts do I do myself? When delegating partial SEO duties it will be important to have a full understanding ahead of time how much work you’ll retain for yourself and how much will be subbed out. Depending on your own level of experience you may want to do most of the research while leaving the implementation to a web developer. Or you might want to hire some experts to do the detail research and provide you a list of recommendations. Just be sure to know what type of work you can or cannot handle for yourself.

Question 15: What work can be given to the other person(s)? If you’re maintaining most of the control over the SEO then its simply a matter of determining what parts to delegate out to whoever. With SEO there are many small pieces to the whole. One person can do copywriting, another editing the pages, another keyword research, and yet another link building. With proper delegation you can find several people to each handle one area or find one person that can do it all. This would also lend to deciding whether to use your own team or outsourcing it to sub-contractors.

Question 16: How do I ensure that all the sub-contractors are working in unison together? When managing your SEO while delegating various aspects to other individuals, you’ll need to develop a way to make sure that everyone is working together, as needed. You want to make sure your copywriter uses keywords that were researched and that your SEO reviews what the copywriter has written, and your webmaster implements it on the page properly. This isn’t as difficult as it sounds, but it is a matter of establishing a system that works for everyone.

Question 17: How do I know who to blame if my search marketing or optimization doesn’t work? When implementing an SEO campaign we don’t always get the results we think we should. When you have multiple people working on different aspects of the campaign it’s often difficult to figure out which area is causing the campaign to fail. Is the SEO bad or does the site need more links? Is the copywriting not giving users what they want or are the keywords poorly targeted. While there are benefits to having a group work on a single project, the drawback is figuring out who’s responsible for what failures.

For the small business owner who can’t afford to sub-out the entire SEO campaign, maintaining control while sub-contractinging out small pieces can be a way to accomplish what needs to be done while keeping a better handle on costs. While you lighten your load and reduce costs, you still retain the burden of making sure the campaign is successful. While that may be worth it to some, it may not be the best route for everyone.

In Part III we’ll look at questions related to hiring in-house in order to maintain control of your SEO while having a single person maintain responsibility for it’s success or failure.

If you missed the questions in part I here is the link: See Questions 1-11

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