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: Sitemaps and Feeds
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 [...]
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 [...]
Google and Stuff
just thinking out loud…short, sweet, maybe I’ll add more
Google Personalized Search
I’ve seen discussion about Googles Personalized Search – and there is some concern over how this will affect Search Engine Marketing and Optimization.
Me – I am interested in watching this play out of course, but I’m not concerned. If Design, SEM, and SEO is [...]

