It’s no big secret that search engines have an affinity for blogs, websites that incorporate blogs, etc.
Case in point:
A Google search conducted for the name “John” yields some interesting results.
The first position belongs not to John McCain, John Lennon, or even the Gospel of John.  No, the first position is currently held by John Battelle, [...]

“If you don’t have a blog, you’re dead meat.” - Christopher S. Penn.
The Marketing Over Coffee podcast is an great show, hosted by John Wall and Christopher S. Penn.
This particular quote came from the episode titled Increase Email Results Up to 4X, and was in reference to how Google has improved their indexing of blogs, [...]

No doubt you’ve heard the maxim “Content is King.”  This holds true today just as much as it ever has.
Using that same analogy, let’s look at it another way.  Content is King, yes, but Search is Queen.  And, as is the case more often than any man ever wants to admit, it is the woman [...]

Content.  Community.  Action.  In that order.
Those three words may not seem like much, but they are the key ingredients to any new media, social marketing, or other web 2.0 activity.
Here’s what I mean:
Content:
It’s been said over and over (and over and over): Content is king.  Always has been, always will be.  But that’s nothing new.  [...]

That’s the headline from a recent story on the BusinessWeek website.
The article is actually an update to a May, 2005 cover story, entitled “Blogs Will Change Your Business.”  The authors, Stephen Baker and Heather Green, updated the original article with new facts and figures, updated numbers, etc.
Take some time and give this one a read.  [...]