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 [...]

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 [...]

5 Tips on Submitting Your Site to a Directory

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Google Webmaster Help

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 can [...]

SEO for Bing

We’ve heard all of the hype surrounding Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Some sites are announcing that the new search engine is already competing with Yahoo! for second place in the SE battle, and the reviews of Bing (”But it’s not Google”) seem to be pretty good so far. So, the question is: what can [...]

Another Reason Why SEO Is Important

Two Foster Web Marketing clients, Seattle Personal Injury Attorney Chris Davis and Virginia Traffic Attorney Bob Battle got some press coverage recently.
Chris was interviewed by CNN’s Andrson Cooper about Natasha Richardson’s death:

The first question I always ask a client who is interviewed by a television, radio, magazine, newspaper, or any other type of press publication [...]

Back to basics- a site refresher

While your site and business focus may switch from the actual Web site and design to SEO/SEM principles and social media campaigns, it is a good time to take a step back from your site and revisit it as an interested prospect. Often times we are too focused on other concepts and forget we can [...]

Don’t Cut the Budget…Reorganize and Consider SEO

There is a lot of advice directing companies to not cut their marketing budgets during these tough economic times. That is very true, but the secret is to not only refrain from cutting your efforts, but also to reorganize your resources. Keep spending marketing dollars, but spend them wisely.
So what are some smarter decisions?
The second [...]