We knew the day would eventually arrive and it finally has. Google has announced that businesses can now create pages on Google+. This opportunity is huge for people who want to connect with customers regarding their brands, products and/or local businesses. As Google+ continues to grow in popularity, your law firm has the potential to [...]
We all know how important local search has become. It seems like only yesterday when your Google search results window wasn’t chock-a-block full of local listings lettered A to E. Well just like back in school, you can think of these letters as grades. With the top 5 Google Local listings lettered A-E (I should [...]
Google Videos is going away, permanently. Google Videos, what the heck is that you might say? Do you mean YouTube? Sort of. Let’s take a brief look back at Google’s FIRST streaming video service, Google Videos: Launched in January 2005 Google acquires YouTube October 2006 June 2007, Google Videos acts as a search frameset, displaying [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Those of us who have been in the SEO/web marketing industry have seen these types of sentences in Craigslist “Job posts” plenty of times: “We need you to help get us to page one of Google, but our budget is limited.” “We are willing to become partners with you if you can get us to [...]
Many have said that submitting your website or blog to directories is no longer an effective way to build links and improve your website’s search engine rankings, but this isn’t entirely the case. Yes, not only are (some) directories still good for SEO and link juice, but listing your website and local business information on [...]
Many have wondered how their rankings in old Google will differ from rankings on Google Caffeine. Well, Compare Google allows you to type in your prized keyword phrases that you rank page one for currently, and see how you will rank on Google Caffeine’s new algorithm (as opposed to the “decaf” version). Go check it [...]
Broken links are a lot more of a common occurrence than you think, and chances are that you’ve never even considered it. How many times have you or anyone that has written for your site posted a link to a news story or blog post? Chances are that the page on your website is still active, but a [...]
I would like to take the time to urge everyone to regularly check out the Google Webmaster blog where Matt Cutts and others at Google share SEO and webmaster tips that range from beginner to advanced. The blog is well organized and very informative. Matt just posted his video responses to last month’s Q&A. They [...]
