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 [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

Ten basic link building techniques for attorneys

Sometimes, when we start getting caught up in advanced Internet marketing techniques like social media marketing and blogging, we start to forget some of the basics of search engine optimization SEO is, despite what a lot of people have been saying lately (probably because they’re mad about not ranking well for their keywords or because [...]

Ways to Build Links as Attorneys

So, in the last post, I mentioned the importance of building links. If there was some sort of chart proving why building links to your site is important and how much it can help you improve your search engine ranking position (SERP), I would include it. How about this…. SEOMoz published an article last year, [...]

Ways to Market your Attorney Blog

Here are a few resources to use to make sure you’re getting the most out of your attorney blog: Blog Catalog A good Blog Directory that everyone should take the time to submit to. Technorati Build your authority with the most popular blog search engine, Technorati. Google Blogsearch Search for and comment on other law-related bloggers in [...]