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It’s no secret that guest blogging is one of the best ways to get your business or brand noticed around the world. The benefits of blogging aren’t only limited to better SEO rankings, but a stronger relationship with your audience as well.
New companies usually find it hard to even turn a single head to their websites. They lack the experience and the mastery of social media marketing which makes it hard for them to establish a name in the industry.
Even if you have a stunning site and lots of juicy contents to back it up, your site still won’t survive without enough traffic. Here are some of the benefits of blogging and why you should consider utilizing it.
One of the things you want to happen with your blog is to establish a sense of authority for it. It will enable you to strengthen your domain name in search engines.
To achieve that, you will need to have special SEO tactics to help you build links to and from other high authority sites. In this manner, when people start clicking your links in other sites, you’ll know how much influence your writing creates.
The more people you can get to follow you back from your guest blogging, the wider your reach will be. In fact, this could open up a new network for you.
Your loyal audience will surely recommend you to their list of contacts and this can initiate a butterfly effect. As a result, your target blogs and sites will be happy to share your bio and links, as a favor for adding value to their audience.
Just because you’re full of ideas doesn’t mean that they’re all going to work. You also have to think about how your ideas can create an impact on your audience.
A great blog or site is not solely about its presence or the authority it has; it also has something to do with how many people you can move with your brand.
If it’s able to move a lot of people, you won’t have a hard time driving audience from a bigger site to your own. This is actually one of the easiest ways you can build your brands as a novice.
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Guest blogging is a good way to start exposing your brand and building your business. You can use it to become an authority or expert in your field.
The more well-researched and high-quality articles you can submit to authority blogs means the greater chance you have to make a name in the industry. Along the way, you’ll be able to mingle and interact with your audience.
This will help you gain more understanding about their problems, needs and aspirations. Because of this, you’ll be able to write contents that can hit the right chords with your audience.
Success, however, doesn’t happen overnight. You have to work your way and write many valuable blog posts that can help you become an expert.
You can think of guest blogging as a way to gain the respect of other people. Once the quality of your work reaches a wide range of audience, you can go to places.
You can use your work to buff up your credibility. You can post and share your portfolio on sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to reach more audience and clients.
Despite the number of years you’ve been writing or how many articles you’ve already published, there will still be times when people will come up to you and question your writing. Some of them can even make you doubt yourself.
Reflecting on your writing is an important step in keeping an eye on the quality of work that you do. You will be able to embrace the importance of proofreading to avoid embarrassing feedback from your readers.
An inbound link is a bait that will help you reel your fish (target audience) with. The bigger sites typically allow novice writers like you to put up a small bio and a URL of your social media profile at the end of your post.
You can use this section to drive referral traffic to your site and get it to move up the rankings. This will also help your site gain the publicity it needs.
One key thing to remember when it comes to inbound links is to use high-quality contents. You want to establish a good relationship with your readers so you can drive more traffic to your site. This is actually one of the best benefits of blogging you can take advantage of.
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Thanks to the invitation we received from the team at The Architecture Project, we had the opportunity to travel to the city of Aarhus, Denmark, and meet with Kazuyo Sejima during the Aarhus School of Architecture conference in August 2016.
Winner of the 2010 Pritzker Prize and founder of SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa and Associates), Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima talks to us about the importance of white in their designs, with the intention of bringing and diffusing natural light to all the spaces. Sejima also describes how their buildings are able to integrate and bring people together through open spaces that connect, in an almost extreme way, the interiors and exteriors.
Review more of Sejima’s work here.
Unfurled House is a home located in Petersham, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. The contemporary home was designed in 2016 by Christopher Polly Architect. Unfurled House by Christopher Polly Architect: “An articulated two-storey volume is sensitively stitched to the rear fabric of a Federation masonry and hipped envelope to provide significant additional freedom for the owners and their children to grow into. Environmental, cost and planning values entailed in retaining..
The project is the result of the Waiting for Revival Competition organised by the Transylvania Trust Fundation aiming to transform the spaces of the castle into workshop areas and one multifunctional hall.
The brief required not to intervene onto the existing historical structure in order to carry out a full restoration at a later date. Consequently the design was conceived using a set of independent installations.
The design aims to bring back spacial qualities belonging to the castle before it fell into disrepair. We functionalised the existing spaces for the Arts and Crafts Workshops and at the same time we tried to give the former ruin a sense of place. The collapsed vaults were recreated using a lighting installation consisting of a series of light bulbs hanged from the ceiling. We designed the smaller space of the main hall with intimacy in mind. The work area’s installations make the space functional for metal and carpentry workshops and at the same time illuminate the distinctive features of the space. All the pieces were built on site by local craftsmen and volunteer students during the two week long arts and crafts workshop held at the castle at the end of august 2016.
Beijing Design Week 2016: German designer Thomas Schnur presents six pieces of furniture adapted from common objects like traffic cones and metal barriers for an exhibition in Beijing (+ slideshow). (more…)
Aarhus School of Architecture, schmidt hammer lassen architects, VOLA, and Danish Arts Foundation proudly announce the fourth joint venture competition Drawing of the Year 2016. This year’s theme is Habitation.
Digital drawings
Technology has transformed how architects work — and how their work is perceived. Therefore Drawing of the Year 2016 will focus exclusively on sketches and drawings created using digital technology. The aim of the competition is to continuously explore new tendencies in architectural drawing and challenge the use of new techniques and mixed media.
This year’s competition examines the potential for developing architectural ideas through a digital format. How can digital drawing push the boundaries of our perception of Habitation? How can digital drawings express artistic skills? And how can digital technology contribute to the understanding of drawing as a craft?
Habitation
We invite bold, inspiring, and innovative proposals on how architects imagine, develop and contribute to new ways of perceiving habitation through drawing. On all scales and in all environments, from the smallest cabin to complex living facilities in rural outskirts, suburban environments, nature or in expanding megacities.
We accept drawings from students at architecture schools all over the world. The internationally acclaimed jury will award digitally produced drawings that inspire, communicate and engage in architecture in an artistic way. Drawings should reflect a media of production and dissemination of thoughts and dreams, and should invite the recipient to wonder, be moved or become involved in the discussion of architecture and habitation.
After the competition the drawings will be curated, printed and exhibited at Aarhus School of Architecture. A book containing a curated selection of the drawings will be published in 2017.
You also have the opportunity to submit a film showing how you made your drawing or any inspirational supplement to your drawing.
Download the information related to this competition here.
Sig Nordal 