I have always recommended posting frequency (daily if possible, especially if you have very little content on your site now!) combined with a good quality article at least once per week or so…

YouTube – How important is the frequency of updates on a blog?.

WOW!  Didn’t think this would happen so fast! Welcome to the world of instant results! Twitter, Facebook and Blogging just became TEN TIMES MORE IMPORTANT for your SOCIAL NETWORK MARKETING!

First, we’re introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we'll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page.

via Official Google Blog: Relevance meets the real-time web.

Truth in advertising is coming to the Web, people!  Be prepared to be surprised that a lot of  bloggers (and other sites!) are paid by big companies to promote their products. I have been saying for years, that a lot of these supposedly unbiased websites with product reviews are a lot of bunk and were paid to write it… trust me I know… remember that I also do online marketing! And being that I had a business and sales background before this, I knew where to draw the line for clients… many don’t however… time will tell… this may just be the start of something good on the web… looks the wild, wild west of the internet era is drawing to a close with this.

FTC to Regulate Blogging – Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News – FOXNews.com.

Wow. This is from the Financial Times and is really not very good news for the online advertising industry in general… This could be really BAD NEWS FOR BLOGGERS. We’ll all just have to hang tight and see how it affects the blogging industry.