PRACTICE MANAGEMENT | BLOGGING | Good blog post topics n Coping with acne spots
n What is the best filler for beautiful lips? n Back-to-school skincare regimen
n New laser speeds up tattoo removal n Sculpt your body without surgery n Are cheekbones back?
n Winterise your skin with antioxidants
n Here comes the bride and she glows
n Get ready for the holidays with new treatments n 5 facts about liposuction
doctors, products, and services by including navigation to primary business pages. You want to encourage readers to stay and read more. Make it easy to browse the available content by grouping by topic and/or content type such as video, infographic, and blog post. The average reader has a pretty
short attention span for reading content online. Try to make your posts scannable since most online readers are unlikely to read every single word. Their eyes go to certain words and phrases first so they can get the gist of what you are writing about before they decide to devote any more time to it. Every blog post you write should have a specific target audience in mind, such as new mums, teens with acne, men with hair loss, or first time lip filler patients. More is not necessarily more when
creating a blog as a microsite
that lives on its own under a new domain name can offer more marketing muscle than merely adding a blog to your landing page as an afterthought. For maximum effectiveness, blog content should also be leveraged on your Facebook page, Twitter, LinkedIn profile, and other social bookmarking sites used to share information.
Blog post format There are a number of key elements that should be built into every blog domain and post, and they all play an important role in getting the most mileage from your blog. Remember that spelling and grammar count
in
blogging too. Even if the
user is just b row s i n g educational content on the blog, make it easy for him/her to learn more about your clinic,
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which is the acronym used to describe syndication of web content. In essence, RSS is a way to allow other sites to publish some of your website or blog content by registering the document with an RSS publisher. A user can then publish RSS-distributed content on their site. In general, a good guideline is to
The average reader has a
pretty short attention span for reading content online. Try to make your posts
scannable since most online readers are unlikely to read every single word.
it comes to blog posts. Long posts created purely for the sake of extra words are not really effective; however, short blurbs that do not say much are also not so interesting to readers. If the post is too long, chances are visitors will not read through it all. You should write posts of the length that it takes you to communicate what you want to say. Not every post has to be the same word count. If the post contains visuals or links, you can also reduce the word count. Shorter entries allow you to write more posts, which is preferable for generating readership on search engines and with RSS,
make your blog posts no more than 600 words and no less than 250 words. The type of post that you are writing will often determine the most appropriate length. For example, if you are writing on your opinion of a new procedure, you may write more than if you are relating the details of a news item where you will link to the full story so the reader can find out more. If you have a lot to say on a particular topic, splitting a
long post into a series of shorter posts can be a great way to keep readers coming back. They read the first part, and realise there will be more to come, so they will return to read the rest of it. Your first paragraph should be both
an introductory and summary section; introduce the reader to the reason for your post. The body of your blog should include links to your social networking platforms. You can also let viewers skim your content by previewing posts in parts. Make the preview extra clickable by including an image.
Name that blog Most bloggers choose to integrate a blog within their primary website domain. You can host your blog within your clinic website URL, for example
Skinclinic.com/blog or
blog.skinclini
c.com, instead of hosting your
blog domains supremacy.
externally, such as skinclinic.
wordpress.com or skinclinic.
blogspot.com. It may be advisable to avoid having two compete
against each other for SEO
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