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If there's content on a website and no one is around to read it, is it marketing? Maybe, but it's not very effective. Getting an audience in front of your content is the most basic, but also one of the most critical parts of content marketing, and organic search traffic is incredibly important to the long-term success of your content. Reports of SEO's death have been greatly exaggerated. The cliche "SEO is dead" really refers to the grind-house article and

Google has officially added yet another ranking factor to the list. This past week, Google announced that whether or not a site is using site encryption will now affect the way that the search engine determines their rankings. This addition to the way Google's algorithm ranks sites is designed encourage developers to adopt HTTP, a type of data encryption intended to deter hackers and make data sharing more secure. Google's goal being to reward sites that are as secure as

Here’s the scenario: you're sipping your coffee and firing up your favorite RSS reader, checking the latest SEO news feeds while you caffeinate. You see a blog post reporting that the latest edition of Google’s Penguin algorithm has gone live. What do you do? Should you even care? There are algorithm updates happening all the time, what’s the best way to protect your site against the next Google tidal wave without driving yourself crazy? In the spring of 2012 the world

Earlier this month National Positions was honored to have been able to attend the west coast's most prominent legal technology conference of 2014. At the conference, members of our own National Positions team were able to discuss the state of digital marketing with technology thought-leaders and share actionable marketing tips with representatives from the legal market around the country. Not only was it an incredible couple of days filled with conversations and presentations tackling the technology, tools, and techniques impacting

If you spend any time in internet marketing circles – whether in discussions with colleagues, through social media, or by following the top bloggers and forums – you’ve no doubt heard a lot of talk about the “new era” of content. In terms of Internet marketing, and especially with regards to SEO, content used to be a seen primarily as a  vehicle for delivering keywords to search engine crawlers. Internet marketers focused largely on creating content into which keywords could

In the early days of online search, there were easy ways to manipulate search results and gain first page rankings for your website.  While this worked for quite a few years, eventually Google became interested in rewarding websites for providing an all-around quality user experience to their visitors. Newer algorithm updates and the continued sophistication of search engine crawlers have made most tactics unsuccessful.  Adding a blog extension or Facebook page might help for a short term but can backfire