Blogging can be a great way to leverage social media to  position yourself as an expert–the “go-to” resource whenever someone has a problem you can solve, but to blog effectively you should follow the best practices of business blogging.

I know that a lot has been written on this subject, but I’m putting up what I consider the top 5 Best Practices in Business Blogging for your review–if you feel I’ve missed something or I’m off the mark, please let me know!

The 5 Best Practices in Business Blogging

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When you discover you’ve made a bad hire, you usually don’t hesitate to fire the person–or to provide coaching and training to fix the problem(s), so that your employee is a happy, productive, contributing member of the team.

The same should be true of an unproductive website. You should assess your website so that you can determine whether you can fix it–or junk it, and start over.

Your website represents you. Some might even say, it is you. A finely tuned website could be working for you around the clock–helping spread the word about what you do, how you do it better than anyone, and creating opportunities with customers and prospects who need your products or services.

I realize that others have put together lists of factors that create a productive website, but I put this list together specifically for small business owners, if I’ve forgotten anything please feel free to add yours in the comment form!

7 Attributes of a Happy, Productive Website:

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I love WordPress, and others small business owners and marketers should too.

Over the past two years, it has become my web design platform of choice.

“Why?” You might ask….

Simply because a WordPress website can do everything an old-fashioned website can do, and about 100 times more.

10 Reasons Small Business Owners Love WordPress

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