Archive for October, 2009

Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors

Monday, October 26th, 2009

If you blog, you know that it’s good for your business.

But how — and how much?

Answers to those questions can be found by clicking on the link below:

http://tinyurl.com/lkwmlf

Is Twitter primarily a US-based phenomena?

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

One of our clients asked recently if Twitter is primarily a US-based phenomena, or if it matched the Internet’s general ability to reach international audiences.  In fact, this recent article found by Cyndi Friedel in our office shows that more than half of Twitter traffic comes from outside the U. S.  Interesting reading. 

 

http://www.tinyurl.com/qtmnoj

 

To Use Meta Tags or Not?

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

There has been much discussion in the search engine world about whether to use meta tags in SEO programming, and whether it still matters to Google. In a recent blog post, Google confirmed they do not use keyword meta tags for their search rankings. However, Google does use the description meta tag as the text for their organic search results snippets.

Companies looking to invest in SEO should not completely ignore the meta tag. Microsoft said that keyword meta tags are still being used in Bing and Yahoo!

http://tinyurl.com/najsxf