Monthly Archives: March 2009

Determining a Post Frequency – How Often Should We Blog?

How to develop an efficient post frequency and even increase production without raising a finger…

How often should you blog? In many cases, the answer to this question depends on how much content you have, and the amount of resources you have available to fill the need of your audience.

SEO Trick – Quickly Submit Your Sitemap To Three Places

Three search engines happy to navigate your content once they have a road map that you didn’t spill Coca-Cola all over in the car…

Your sitemap, when built correctly, is the tour guide of your website. It tells search engines which pages are your “featured attractions”, and which pages are like the Disneyworld changing rooms: off limits. Your sitemap also makes it easy for search engines to take note when you’ve updated your website or added new content.

Google Lets Big Brands Join the SEO VIP Club – No Effort Required

Why Google doesn’t require big brands to optimize their sites in order to land on page one, and what it means for smaller companies

Over the past couple of months, Google has started to favor brands in its search engine results, primarily effecting the most competitive, high-value keywords.

The Search Engine Benefits of a Google Knol

Why a Google Knol may still offer an unfair advantage over search engine results and how you can get a piece of that pie

Although Google says that Knols get no preferential treatment in search engine ranks, Search Engine News claims that they’ve seen dozens of Knols that rank on page one in Google for a variety of terms, even though the pages have only been live for a couple of months. Example: How to Backpack.

Twitter Metrics and Tools – How Far Does a Twitter Tweet Go?

How to tell if Twitter really does drive traffic, and if it does, how so?

If you dug a little into the Google Analytics of our site, you’d see that Twitter is our #3 source of incoming traffic next to Google and direct links (email).