How can a blog help your small business? There are so many ways. Read on for 5 ways in which a blog can help your business get more clients that you may not have thought about.

1) Increase the KLT factor

Blogs are a hybrid -- they straddle the realm between personal and business. And that's a good thing and at the heart of the power of blogs.

People like to do business with people they know, like, and trust, and with a blog you can quickly increase the number of people who feel that way about YOU.

2) Quick Keyword Presence

You can quickly build a presence on a range of keywords. Blogs are flexible. You can also build a number of them fairly quickly.

So you can pick your keywords, and set up optimized blogs for any number of them. That can work well because Google loves blogs and as long as you're feeding yours with a steady dose of content, they will rank well quickly.

3) You can be in many places at the same time

Blogs allow you to be in many places at the same time. You can have a blog for several keywords. You should supplement that with articles and press releases, and suddenly you could dominate the front page of Google for several of your important keywords, especially locally.

4) Get quick front page status for news

I already mentioned Google's love for WordPress blogs. And because of that, you can quickly get visibility for your news and your newest products. Just blog about them, write about them in articles, which you then link to your blog, and if you've picked good keywords, people will find your news.

5) You can refer to and link to all the other sites you want people to see

Having multiple blogs has lots of benefits. Not the least of those is the fact that you can link them all to each other, which will help reinforce your message, and allow people access to the other areas and products you offer.

As you can see, blogs can e real marketing power houses. If you have one, keep adding to it, and start another one or three. If you don't have one yet, it's definitely time to get started.