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 as you [...]

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 where [...]

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)…
We haven’t had [...]

Planning on Hiring Someone For SEO? Set a REALISTIC Budget!

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 page one [...]

Bing Continues to Grow Market Share

Bing has experienced a 22% growth rate in August, 2009 according to reports from Nielsen.com.

The search engine still has some ground to make up after falling 600 million searches short of third-place search engine Yahoo!, but if trends (Bing growing by an average of 22% and Yahoo! continuing to fall) continue, Microsoft’s search engine could [...]

Compare Old Google with Google Caffeine

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 out and [...]

Web Marketing Recap: Top 5 News Stories of the Summer Part 2

In Part 1 of the Top 5 Web Marketing Stories of Summer 2009, we touched on the Twitter vs Facebook battle for real-time search, as well as Facebook seeming to try to be more and more like Twitter.
Here are the top three Web Marketing stories of the Summer of 2009:
3. Bing emerges as a major [...]

How to Check for and Fix Broken Links

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 [...]

Web Marketing Recap: Top 5 News Stories of the Summer Part 1

It was a busy summer in the world of Internet marketing, and the dust is only beginning to settle. It seems like, just yesterday, Twitter was this new social networking phenomenon that everyone was afraid to use, Microsoft was slowly dwindling away as search engine-nobodies, and Google was on top of the world and [...]