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Even though we've had it up on our site for a few weeks, I'd like to announce the Organic SEO Click Distribution Calculator tool, which can tell you how many estimated organic clicks and dollars you would receive from a single keyword ranking position in Google.

Kind of a neat tool because if you were ranking say at position six for a particular keyword but wanted to know about how many more organic clicks you could get if you were to rank at number one, well now you can!

Has it been almost six months since my last drupal module post?  Well then, time for another drupal module round up!

Last week after attending the monthly San Diego Drupal Group meeting there was an interesting module discussion between all the drupal enthusiasts, and so here are some of the latest and greatest modules discussed and used by Best Rank:

Today I noticed seomoz launched a new link analysis tool that really has the seo community buzzing and for good reason:

HO HO HO Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!

I'm feeling rather jolly this holiday season and am going to share a bit of interesting data.  Want to drive a bit more traffic to your website?  Good, listen up.

Below is an analytics data set showing daily, organic traffic, collected over the past 18 months (June 08 - Dec 09) for just one of the website's we've worked on.

Recently we had some requests asking for a video tutorial on how to create a drupal theme - here it is!  A "theme" for those of you who aren't familiar is a term used to describe the visual layer of a drupal based web site, and so I think it's important to understand the possibilities and power behind the design.

I had to split the tutorial video into two separate clips since youtube only allows 10 minutes per video.

A few weeks back I wrote about thickening up your site and the long tail of search, stating that the majority of most site's organic keyword traffic is actually stored up in the long tail (keyword phrases > 3 words)  and it's important not to overlook that idea when targeting organic traffic - and so this week I decided to prove the concept true by looking at some real website data but taking things one step further than the traditional long tail theory.

When you and I perform a search on our favorite engine we actually have a reason, don't we?  Wouldn't it be great if we knew the intent of our customers' searches so that we could better serve up what they're looking for?

Turns out we can!  

It is generally accepted that there are three types of search queries performed by you and I when we do a search on our favorite engine:

It's been a little while since my first post covering some of the more useful drupal modules, so for all you drupal-nerds, here are a few more useful modules we use here at Best Rank to build solid, robust websites:

Contrary to what you might think, there aren't many direct technical SEO benefits from using Twitter:

We get many requests asking if we can optimize websites.  Some times the people asking us for help have websites with just a handful of pages.  For those of you who are relatively new to SEO, a lot of successful websites have something in common, they tap into the...

The long tail of search

If you haven't heard, the long tail of search