OK, this is going to be short and sweet...

I have noticed that since I have been using Active Rain that my Google rankings have went up

I'm sure that it is probably because I am linking pages on here to my own websites...

I've also read posts by Tom Burris about Google Juice, I kind of took it with a grain of salt...

However, I use a tool called Hittail, Hittail allows me to see which search terms are being used to find my website and then advises me on which subject to blog about...

It's a very useful tool and it also allows me to conduct the same search to look at the results...

So today, I am looking through the search terms used to come to my website, the longtail term was

home loan officer in texas, when Google showed the search, the Top 2 rankings were from Active Rain...Tom Burris was #1 and my VA Home Loan page on Active Rain was #2...

then a couple of listings down was Tom's Dallasloanguy website...

How cool is that, two Active Rain pages actually ranking higher than Tom's real website?

This is actually not a new thing, I have noticed that Tom and I both have search rankings that are very similar for many terms whenever I do my daily checking...

Oh, and the tool I mentioned above, Hittail...it's FREE... http://www.hittail.com