In today’s world, chances are you or your company have a blog on your website. There are a few essential reasons to have a blog which include sharing updates and increasing search engine optimization (commonly referred to as SEO). Blogs need to be maintained and updated, which in short means content for blog posts needs to be constantly developed. Continually coming up with content within the bounds of your company’s industry can become tough and can lead to blogger burnout.

Below are two common causes for blogger burnout along with the symptoms you may be experiencing as a result. If you or someone at your company are experiencing these symptoms take a look at our recommendations on how to treat these symptoms.

If you are planning on creating a website or refreshing your current website, make sure to consider the following questions.

1) How should I best utilize my homepage?

Your homepage is prime digital real estate. Most visitors to your site—both prospects and customers—will tend to go straight to your homepage, either from a search engine result or by typing in your direct URL. As such, your homepage has a huge impact on your digital reputation and overall sales funnel. The top portion of your homepage that displays within the visible screen size when you first land on the page is even more important!

This area of the your homepage is referred to as ‘above the fold’. Fill this with engaging hero images (also known as header images) with specific messages explaining who your company is. It is also ideal for the hero to help guide the user to where they should go to next on your website. A great example of this would be to incorporate a call to action (CTA) in text format or as a button.

What is Online Reputation Management?

As users browse the Internet and social media, they create opinions about people and brands that they see or interact with. As such, all online information that even just mentions your company name can influence a prospect or customer’s opinion about your brand—both positively and negatively.

Online reputation management (ORM) is the practice of actively creating, curating, and monitoring all information about yourself online. ORM encompasses a variety of platforms, including Google Search, social media, review websites, and company listings/directories (i.e. Bloomberg profile).

From a Marketer’s Viewpoint…

Over 25 years ago, when I was beginning my career in marketing, I decided to take a few design courses at night in Baltimore, where I was living at the time. The school, now called Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), taught me many important lessons—which at that time were tailored to a physical or print world, but which are still applicable to this day in the digital world.

First, space is space. And while marketers like to fill that space with words and images, white space (the blank area in between images) is equally as important because it gives context to and defines the actual design, guiding the viewer’s eye from what is primary to what is secondary in priority. The human eye cannot view everything equally or all at once. It’s that simple.