SEOMoz is FREE??

As almost all of our clients know, a tool that we use on a fairly regular basis here in the SEO department of Foster Web Marketing is SEOMoz. Well, they announced earlier this week that they are now offering free a 30-day trial. I would highly recommend taking advantage of this offer as the paid [...]

Google Instant: SEO Killer or Wake-Up Call?

Google launched a new search engine feature yesterday called Google Instant that has sparked a lot of controversy and discussion in the Internet marketing world. Many are worried that Google’s new search engine feature will put the SEO’ers out of jobs and the website owners who have spent countless time and money to obtain top [...]

Does Google Pagerank Relate to Search Engine Rankings?

A lot of times clients will e-mail us with concerns about their under-performing or suddenly dropping Google Pagerank, and wonder if it means that their website’s search engine rankings are suffering as a result. How important is Google Pagerank to a client or webmaster when it comes to SEO? Well, it’s actually not as important [...]

Google Local changes name to Google Places

Google has decided to re-brand the Google Local Business Center as Google Places. With the re-branding, a few new features have been added: You can now apparently tell Google Local what areas your business services, and can also keep your address private if you operate a home-based business or have an office in an address [...]

SEO Guide to Multilingual Websites

Chances are that, if you’re in a major city or one with a large population of a specific heritage, you would likely benefit from a website that caters to that particular demographic. We have clients in New York, Miami, and Texas with Spanish versions of their websites, in Canada with French versions of their websites, [...]

Matt Cutts’ Google State of the Union Recap

Matt Cutts recently released a video that recapped his 2009 State of the Union recap speach that he gave at Pubcon in Las Vegas back in November. Here is the video: And a few things that you can take from this as an attorney/law firm with a website/blog: Matt Cutts can’t sing. Just kidding (maybe)… [...]

Video Sites That Allow Linking

A question came up in our last webinar regarding video submission sites and which ones allow you to post links back to your website. This is a great question as most of our clients have a plethora of videos and submitting those videos to sites where they can be viewed by potential clients and also [...]

Calls to Action: What Are You Offering?

I was driving through Baltimore City this weekend when I passed by a local dry cleaners with a very interesting sign out front that caught my attention. This particular dry cleaners is still considered to be in the city but it is kind of on the outskirts in a district where there are a lot [...]

5 Things to Consider When Having Multiple Domains

Everyone is always eager to buy up as many domains as they can with hopes of one day conquering the world, but then the question always arises: “what am I going to do with all of them?” Optimistic hopes of having ten different websites with different URL’s to capture more and more traffic (and cases) [...]

Who Are You Hiring to Build Links To Your Website?

Okay, so you already know how important it is to have an effective search engine marketing strategy in place in order to obtain and keep page one search engine rankings. You’re an attorney, which likely means that you don’t really have the time to go out and build links yourself because you’re spending most of [...]