Creating a blog for your business can be a valuable tool in your marketing toolbox, for some businesses more valuable than the website itself. I know many businesses equate “blog” with “confessional teenage diary”, and dismiss it as a trend, but it’s seriously good business. In the end a blog is just a very “simple content management system”, with some built in features that search engines like Google love. Imagine Google and all search engines are like hungry monsters that eat web sites and, well, produce search results, then blogs are like a never ending pasta bowl, connected to other never ending pasta bowls, and a regular website are like slices of white toast. Basically blogs automatically create a rich, interconnected, structure that would take hours to do by hand.

Anyway, the top ten things come from INC. magazine, which I highly recommend reading, the one caveat I will add is the section is sponsored by Network Solutions, and if you want to host a blog or anything that uses mysql, don’t do it there, it’s fantastically slow.