A Few Easy Ideas for Visual Blog Content

Okay, so everyone knows visual content is HOT. For example, Buzzfeed, Mashable, just to name a few.

Quick Facts:

• Instagram had more daily users in August 2012 than Twitter
• Pinterest drives more sales and revenue than Facebook for jewellery retailer Bottica.com (source) and Pinterest drives more traffic than Twitter for Sony (source)
• KISSmetrics built 41,142 backlinks from 3741 unique domains by publishing 47 infographics (source)

Adding an image to each blog post is easy. Blogging school questions: But what else can you do? How can you turn information about boring industries into visual content? How can you create fascinating infographics about dull products?

1. Create an infographic to share statistics about your industry or industry-related topics.
2. Comment on the history of your industry. Do you know the origins of the humble business card?
3. Share your vision on the future.
4. Comment on industry trends such as cars becoming bigger.
5. Show geographic, gender, or economic differences in the use of your product, service or cause.
6. Gather quotes from industry experts and make them look appealing. Take your inspiration from Lifehack.

Blogging Tips for WordPress Users!

One word, syndication. I'm serious, whatever you write on your blog as an article should be syndicated to every social media platform on this god given earth.

Facebook Business Page – In your applications area, search for the “Social RSS” application and get it set up to publish your content to your Facebook page wall automatically.

LinkedIn Personal Profiles – Look for “Blog Link” or “WordPress” in the applications section on your profile page and set it up to auto-post your content to your LinkedIn profile. Don’t forget to tell all of your employees to do this too. If you have a lot of employees, the increase in your potential reach could be gigantic.

Plaxo – Although not as popular, Plaxo is another great business networking site that makes it really easy to “add a feed” and plug in your blog content automatically.

Bing Community Sites – If any of your fishing holes are built on the Ning platform, you can plug in your feed using the “Add RSS” widget included on your profile page.

Other Social Networking Sites – There are many other social sites that allow you to plug in your blog’s RSS feed. Scour your sites for this option.