This post is a personal story of a friends small, family-owned business seeing impressively quick benefits from their new blog site.
Last year I re-connected with a best friend from high school. She runs the family business now – Broken Arrow Lodge & Marina – on the Fishingest Side of Lake Livingston, Texas. I have fond [...]
Category Archives: Search
Small Business Reaps Big Blog Rewards
Proof-Positive -Sitemaps DO HELP websites
As you may know – I’ve been a fan of Sitemaps for years:
How Can You Increase Traffic to a Website?
In Google in Just Days
Free Sitemap.xml Template
On SEOmoz, chenry wrote about an experiment he ran to see if submitting a Sitemap to Google and Yahoo would decrease the time it took Google to crawl and index [...]
Q & A: Upgrading to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Will Upgrading to CSS Help with SEO?
In Theory …Yes. In reality …Maybe. The Major Search Engines really are very good at getting to the data they want, no matter how it’s wrapped, and the technology continues to improve.
How To Use Sitemaps Effectively
I just love it when a ‘big namers’ blog post echos and confirms my own website philosophy!
The current ‘big namer’ is Vanessa Fox, and the blog post is “Increasing Search Indexing Coverage With an XML Sitemap“
It’s a good read, and reinforces the importance of utilizing sitemaps for increased website coverage. However I was especially interested [...]

