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Why do startups often have blog pages? is it for SEO?

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Re: Why do startups often have blog pages? is it for SEO?

#7
Short answer: Yes.

Slightly longer answer: Depending on the business, building organic inbound traffic via evergreen content like blog posts can be an effective way to get potential customers in the door. This type of inbound lead is usually higher quality and lower cost overall than paid ad traffic, which has gotten pretty miserable over the past few years.

Re: Why do startups often have blog pages? is it for SEO?

#8
post #7

Short answer: Yes. Slightly longer answer: Depending on the business, building organic inbound traffic via evergreen content like blog posts can be an effective way to get potential customers in the door. This type of inbound lead is usually higher quality and lower cost overall than paid ad traffic, which has gotten pretty miserable over the past few years.

Interesting. Well, it must be worth it seeing as almost every single business is doing this. Or maybe it's just cargo-cult? Is there any data on the effectiveness?

Re: Why do startups often have blog pages? is it for SEO?

#10
I'd say also SMO (social media optimization)

Any "link juice" on Google may or may not be real, but traffic is real. I'd point to

https://www.pinecone.io/

as a company that was highly effective at building awareness of their product long before vector databases became hot with a blog. Their blog now is just another navel-gazing, self-centric 'enterprise' blog, which is sad.

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