Talk Like A Pirate Day

Arghhh my fellow webmasters tis “talk like a pirate day“,arghh, blogging and tracking yearly events is a good method of getting traffic, there’s a certain formula within Google that coincides with news and these events, some web masters call it “the news effect”, don’t ask me how - but Google gives priority to recent posts and web sites related to current events and this is supposed to ensure that when these events occur - the general surfer will find new content that’s based on the time of posting.

One example is 9/11 where searches don’t want old news they want the latest related news - so Google gives new posts a boost within the search results. Read more