According to MerchantCircle, an online network of 685,000 small business owners, the number of sites in the network with blogs nearly tripled to 15,676 over the last year.

Research by MerchantCircle also shows that a blog increases traffic to members sites by 30% on average.

"Merchants are beginning to recognize the value of a business blog, which people within the Internet community have known for a long time." says Darren Waddell, MerchantCircle's vice-president of marketing, in a statement. A recent survey of marketing executives and business owners by HubSpot found blogging to be companies' most useful social media tool.

As we always say at altMD, start blogging. Why?  The more you blog, the better your results will be!  Not only your results in altMD but in Google, YAHOO, MSN, AOL and the other leading search engines. 

Blogging Tips:

1.       Blog about what you know – what your “sweet spot” is.

2.       Blog about subjects that you feel will resonate with your target audience.

3.       Blog about timely information or events.

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Best wishes on your blogging!!