#1 On Google
This is cool. Do a Google search for corporate blogging and this site is result #1. Out of 1,910,000.
Amazing - and interesting. Not that I protest, but it's a fast move from #25 a couple of weeks ago. I see two possible explanations. The second one might be interesting if you want to generate more traffic to your own blog.
1. It's all a mistake.
It wouldn't be the first time a Google Dance led to very short-lived changes of the ranking. Soon - maybe even when you read this - this site may have dropped substantially.
2. A few links made all the difference
According to Technorati this blog has 234 links from 165 sources. That's great. But I've been lucky enough to get approximately that number of inbound links for a while (thank you all). What happened a few weeks ago, though, was this:
They sent a lot of traffic this way and probably a good deal of "search engine juice". See the pattern? They're not blogs...
It would be interesting to find out if you have similar experiences. If this truly is a pattern, there are several questions to think about for those bloggers that chase traffic increases. For example: Is the power of blog links for SEO purposes generally overestimated? Is Google starting to give blog links lower priority in relation to traditional sites?