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Get noticed, target an audience, build credibility, and drive search engine optimization with a blog. Key for any marketing campaign. Great tips for making a blog successful.

"Blogs allow you to gain rankings for a wide range of phrases found early in the buying cycle and offers multiple opportunities to connect with and build credibility with your target audience. This increases the chances they'll either link over to your product site, bookmark you for future purchases or simply recall your brand when they move further through the buying cycle."

To take a corporate blog to the next level, it's vital to use keywords effectively, says Top Rank Marketing's Lee Odden. Design a list of keywords tailored to your ideal customer, then use SEO basics to ensure that your posts and headlines feature your target words as prominently as possible. Clever turns of phrase may look impressive, Odden notes, but "search engines don't understand puns or metaphors."