{"id":23,"date":"2006-03-31T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/does-your-blog-make-your-morning-coffee\/"},"modified":"2006-03-31T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T21:02:37","slug":"does-your-blog-make-your-morning-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/does-your-blog-make-your-morning-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Blog Make Your Morning Coffee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, probably it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not supposed to. But the question is, what are the benefits your blog brings you?<\/p>\n<p>To me, my blog is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a marketing tool &#8211; I started writing this blog before I launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/\/\">main site<\/a><\/li>\n<li>a traffic driver &#8211; bloging, when done right, gets nice traffic, and certain sucessful posts can bring you tons of new readers\/visitors (but for it to be relevant traffic, you certainly need ot stay on topic)<\/li>\n<li>an online reputation building tool &#8211; by posting valuable on-topic stuff, you let people know what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re worth as an SEO (replace SEO with your specific niche)<\/li>\n<li>a link building tool &#8211; blogs are generally more linkable than old-fashioned sites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your blog doing for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, probably it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not supposed to. But the question is, what are the benefits your blog brings you? To me, my blog is: a marketing tool &#8211; I started writing this blog before I launched the main site a traffic driver &#8211; bloging, when done right, gets nice traffic, and certain sucessful posts can bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}