Law Firm Internet Marketing Blog

The New Yahoo!?

To promote its new home page and other recently launched services like Yahoo Mail and Yahoo answers, Yahoo has launched a multi-million dollar integrated marketing campaign that includes TV, radio, cinema, and online advertisements. The campaign takes a playful and irreverent look at what life would be like with and without Yahoo! and asks the age old question, “Do You Yahoo!?.”

New Web Application Could Revolutionize Blogging

The booming blogging market finds a surprise newcomer as Terapad.com (wwww.terapad.com) goes out of private beta and launches on September 6th.

"Blogging has been technologically very active recently, but feature-wise it's been completely stagnant. We've capitalized on this and added all the features of major corporate websites to the blogging equation." said Stephan Tual, CEO, as he inaugurated the site.

Internet Growth Study Points to Blogging

Internet usage has seen a significant growth over the past month, according to Internet researcher Netcraft. In the firm's September 2006 Web Server Survey, it received responses from 96,854,877 sites, an increase of 4.2 million from last month's survey. In the first five months of the year, the Internet added an average of 2.75 million new hostnames per month, but since June, that average has more than doubled to 5.4 million sites per month.

This is How Yahoo's Directory Really Ranks its Directory Listings

In this article about submitting your web site to the Yahoo! Directory, you will learn a trick or two to improve your listing so that you may boost your rankings at the same time. Understand that the Yahoo! Directory is a web site directory and not a search engine.

Practice Specific Websites

My clients often ask the very same question. "James, how do I get to the top of the search results."

The answer is: give the search engines what they want. Relevant Content! That is why many of my clients are choosing to go with practice specific websites versus building a massive law firm website. It makes complete sense considering Google rates your website according to the overall relevancy of your website.

"There's Major Power In Submitting Your Website To Web Directories!"

Webmasters like you and me are always on the lookout to enhance the link popularity of their sites. One method of doing so is to seek out authority sites in your niche – sites that are widely known on the Internet (through the sheer number of back links) and have been around for some time (think more in terms of several years). Unfortunately, such websites are often at a Page Rank of 6+ and as such, link exchange or text link ad placement is very, very expensive

The Absolute, Hands Down, Biggest Secret to Search Engine Rankings!!

The biggest secret to search engine optimization is...hard work!  Content is king again.  Think about it like this: The more words on your site, the more people who are using search engine will find your website. Google loves fresh content and frequent updates.

To do list:

1. Spend time researching the right keywords or building a list of keywords relevant to your practice

2. Start drafting content relevent to that keyphrase

3. Use latent or related keywords!!! Search engines are smarter than you may realize.

4. Do not over use the keyword phrase - 2-3 times per 500 words is plenty.

If you need assistance with your writing production let me know.

James

MSN Business Directory Submission

The MSN Business Directory is a great value in my opinion, especially if you are releasing a brand new website. The directory is very afforable at $49 per year.

Google - Define 'Fraud'

Psycologist to Google: Define 'Fraud"
A Washington, D.C-based corporate psychologist and jog bra seller filed suit against Google last week for $250,000 claiming the company wrongfully removed AdSense from her website.