Google recently released a video discussing how they rank local businesses as well as introducing some of their new local products including Hotpot, Boost, and Tags. The video does a nice job of explaining some of the factors they use to determine who shows up in the local results and why: As usual, Google doesn't […]
Per usual, very important stuff from Rand Fishkin in Google + Bing Confirm that Twitter/Facebook Influence SEO: As of yesterday, both Bing and Google have confirmed (via an excellent interview by Danny Sullivan) that links shared through Twitter and Facebook have a direct impact on rankings (in addition to the positive second-order effects they may […]
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a story entitled A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web. The piece is a story about a woman who purchased eye glasses from a merchant she found in the organic section of Google's search results. The gist is that the merchant's strategy was to berate and […]
With 500 million users and growing, Facebook is a hotbed of information on professionals. A new service, Stik, aims to help users find recommendations of service professionals through your network of Facebook friends. Stik helps connect you with service professionals who are friends of your friends on Facebook. If you were to search for a […]
I got up early today and started to crank out some work. I was motivated because today was a day I didn't have to speak with co-workers or talk to our clients. I could sit down and just get some stuff done. I came across a great talk by Jason Fried, the co-founder of 37Signals […]
I've had a few clients recently ask about incorporating online video into their web marketing strategy. Videos can be a very effective part of a good web marketing strategy, but you will need to keep a couple of things in mind as you produce and market them. I thought it would be beneficial to share […]
In Moving blogs onto law firm website is misguided approach for large firm SEO, Kevin O'Keefe shares his experiences and advice on maintaining separate domains for your law firm website and your legal blog: LexBlog is getting inquires from large law firms asking if it would be worthwhile to move their blogs from being independent […]
In November 2009, the American Bar Association put together its Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference. The conference featured AboveTheLaw founder David Lat, and included interviews and presentations by several law firm marketing professionals including: Mark Britton, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Avvo, Inc. Micah Buchdahl, President, HTMLawyers, Inc. Trevor Delaney, Personal Finance Editor, The Associated Press Jamie Diaferia, […]
Thanks to Barry Schwartz at SearchEngineLand for his, Key Takeaways From Google’s Matt Cutts Talk At PubCon. Here is my take on some of these issues: Google knows there has been more web spam in the search results and it is due to moving web spam resources to other projects. Those resources are coming back […]
photo © 2008 Desi | more info(via: Wylio) Utilizing images in your blog posts is a great way to engage readers and spice up your articles. However, tracking down photos that are designated as Creative Commons can be tedious. I often use Flickr and perform advanced searches so that I only search within Creative Commons-licensed […]
