Blog on Patch, Get Your Free Perks

Here at Patch, we're tasked with making your life ridiculously easy. As a matter of fact, that's our motto. I'm not kidding.

We've built a robust national community that spans more than 860 neighborhoods, towns and cities across the country, and we're growing.

Patch isn't just an online newspaper. It's a place where the flow of information is multi-directional. Don't just read the news, help us to create it and create conversations around it.

We call our blogging platform Local Voices and it's yours to use.

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To join our family of bloggers is to be linked to a community comprised of mayors, doctors, teachers and celebrities — all just people with something to say.

What have you got to say? Use Patch to say it and you'll have access to perks not offered by other blogging services. Here are just a few:

The Best Built-in Technical Support

Each Patch site has a dedicated editor tasked with creating, curating and aggregating the news that matters to that community. Not only that, but our editors are there to answer your questions. Have a technical question that we can't answer (not likely)? Your Patch editor will act as your liaison to whoever can provide the answer, be it regarding advertising, Patch business listings or where the best restaurants are.

Give it a try, email Brentwood Patch editor Jared Morgan (me) at jared.morgan@patch.com and see if he (me) doesn't respond immediately...I dare you.

There's a whole team of people that are paid to do your bidding, though we don't do windows. Well, we'll do windows for a good cause.

• Read about Patch's Give 5 program, which allows a Patch editor to take a work day off to volunteer in their community.

SEO and Access to Patch's Local and National Traffic

Patch is built for search engine optimization. Our content has been vetted and practically brings the web traffic to it, giving your blog maximum exposure to the local community and potentially to the rest of the country.

Already have a blog? You can copy and paste your blog on Patch to give you a boost in traffic. Hey, we get extra content, the community gets the information and you get a boost in web traffic — everyone wins.

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