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The Anatomy of a Lead Capturing Blog Post

The Anatomy of a Lead Capturing Blog Post | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

We all know it, blogging drives traffic to your website and is a source of lead generation. In fact, 79% of companies that have a blog report a positive ROI for inbound marketing this year. The truth is, much of the content we read online every day is from a blog, making it one of the most viable sources of lead generation.

From my experience, blogs are usually entry pages, where visitors enter the website organically by using a search engine. This makes tracking the bounce rate incredibly important.
For those that do not know, a bounce rate is the percentage of people who arrive on your site and leave without visiting a second page. Typically, a blog post will carry a bounce rate of 70 to 98 percent, which is high compared to other types of pages on a website.

In my mind, the purpose of a blog is to educate your visitor on a particular topic, while giving them relevant offers to entice them forward in the buyer’s journey. That is why the anatomy of our blog post is so important, it must give the right amount of information and have the right structure to spur action. Here are a few things to keep in-mind for your blog post anatomy for lead generation....

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Mike Klevorn shares five key components of a blog post that will capture leads successfully.

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101 Inbound Marketing Blogs You Should Be Reading

101 Inbound Marketing Blogs You Should Be Reading | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Here are a hundred and one (yes, 101!) of the top blogs and websites that you should be reading, if you aren’t already. They cover a variety of topics and they are purposely not segregated by topic. Just because you don’t think you may need to read a blog about social media or content doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be looking at it. So get to it....

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Great list of 101 inbound marketing blogs, and growing, from Jasmine Henry.

Geary Morales's curator insight, November 6, 2013 4:14 PM

Inbound Marketing?  Why work harder trying to appeal to potential clients through outbound marketing...

 

when you can strategize to compel your target markets to not only proactively reach out to you, but also do it with a sense of urgency!

Nathalie Prinet-Houairi's curator insight, January 16, 2014 12:24 PM

Scan thru to select the few based on your direct interests. Otherwise overwhelming for my taste