Live Blog Schema Launched

When Google talks specifically to you you should take it at a compliment.  That’s why we were so happy when Google announced on Google+ yesterday: “Hey Beanstalk – nice work on your live blogging of the State Of Search Conference.  Now that it’s the next day we think we’ll launch the Schema that supports it.” […]

Top Nine Ways to Enrich Your Business Blog in 2012

So you want to inform the people in your targeted market about your industry and increase traffic to your website by adding a blog. You already know that this is a great way to showcase your talents and authority within your niche and gain the trust of your potential clients/customers and peers alike. The question […]

Blogging Trackbacks, Pingbacks & SEO

There seems to be a lot of confusion amongst newbie bloggers over the definition and use of trackbacks, pingbacks and how they can be used for SEO. If you have done any blogging before and have comments enabled, you probably realized very quickly that the amount of spam that comes from the comments of your […]

When a Blog Ceases to be a Blog

As a blogger for our Beanstalk’s website, I spend a lot of time perusing other site’s blogs to keep current with industry happenings and to further my knowledge of SEO techniques. I have seen a growing trend in the wake of the Google Panda algorithm update where blogs are becoming increasingly longer and more verbose. […]