SEO: quality is the key
Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine in the New York Times gives a rare view inside one of the key departments at Googleplex. Amit Singhal, for some reason quaintly referred to as “Mr. Singhal”...
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Nearly Legal has a thing for Sally Field naked: she boosts his Google juice. His recent rise in the rankings for the said search term was helped by the fact that on Tuesday Sally won the Best Lead...
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A recent post on LexBlog highlights the importance of knowing what you’re doing or what others are doing for you when you seek to boost your Google juice by purchasing links or engaging in “excessive”...
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Been away on protracted hols. Quite possible to have kept posting of course, but did not have the inclination. Had I done so, here’s a few things I might have posted about: Martindale-Hubbell Connected...
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Denver Personal Injury Lawyer | sharonsmith333@yahoo.com | osullivan-law-firm.com | IP: 72.70.201.98 wrote: I really enjoyed your post. I will have to come back again to read some more of them. Dear...
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Search engine optimisation – a holistic approach
First Published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, September 2009. Most users don’t look past the first two or three pages of results returned by a search engine, so understanding and implementing...
View ArticlePersonally, I think we’re tops
Have you noticed how recently your site has been doing so much better on Google? Those SEO efforts are really paying off, right? Wrong! Google is showing you what you want to see. Actually it’s been...
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The search engines will find you
By far the best advice I have seen recently on SEO for law firms (well for anyone really) comes from North American legal web gurus Steve Matthews of Stem Legal and Robert Ambrogi in their article...
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Scooping up work online with the “long tail”
I received a Press Release today. Normally these go straight in the bin, but this one grabbed my attention as it was good advice and the accompanying Top 10 SEO tips are spot on. Research carried out...
View ArticleWall of shame – some comments I have trashed
You really should check what your SEO company are doing for you. A new comment on the post “Google+ thoughts so far” is waiting for your approval...
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Wall of shame – vacuous and inaccurate free legal content
Nearly Legal has a beef about sub-standard “free legal content”. I’m with him. In Part 1 he looks at two services who peddle useless “legal” information for their own gain for SEO purposes. His...
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Socially useless
A recent story/scandal I keep being drawn back to is that of Grant Shapps, Tory party co-chairman, former housing minister and former (result!) web enrepreneur and marketing guru, aka Michael Green,...
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Outreach
Hi there, [well, hello!] I hope you are well and are having a good week. [you care?] I’m contacting you from xxx, a content agency based in xxx. [content? uh oh!] We came across your site and we...
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Never mind breaking bad, don’t be evil!
I’m conscious that I’ve not put a virtual pen to WordPress for more than a month now. Last Saturday a friend asked me where I found the inspiration for my daily blog! Clearly he does not take as close...
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Is there a dark side of the moon? and other questions
I’ve been trying to get a handle on Google’s new Hummingbird algorithm update, but with so many self-appointed experts spewing out so much tosh on the web, it’s taken a while to gather my thoughts....
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