Calliope Media - Full Service Attorney Marketing

As a search engine optimization specialist who has a number of clients in the legal industry, I generally do not recommend other direct or indirect competitors, but I have been working recently with Calliope Media, a full service Attorney marketing firm and I have seen very impressive results from their all around work. If you are an attorney, law firm, or legal related company and are in need of anything from web design, to lead generation to pay per click management, I could not recommend a company more strongly.

Product Liability Lawsuit Information, Paxil, Avandia, Trasylol, Birth Injury

As many of you are aware, there are often times problems with drugs that get approved for use by the government and FDA which ultimately can result in product liability lawsuits. Among some of these drugs that have been approved and ended up causing major health issues for those who used them are Paxil, Trasylol, and Avandia. Paxil and been linked to birth injury and death. Paxil also known as Paroxetine, Paxil CR or Pexeva, is the only SSRI that carries an FDA warning for birth defects, and Paxil has been particularly linked to heart birth defects. Like other SSRI antidepressants, Paxil has also been linked to abdominal wall and brain birth defects in infants. If you feel you may have cause to file a Paxil Lawsuit I encourage you to click on the following link to contact a birth injury attorney. Another drug that has been under much scrutiny is Trasylol. Trasylol is used to control bleeding in patients undergoing open heart surgery and to reduce the need for blood transfusions. It turns out trasylol increases the risk of heart attack, stroke and other life threatening issues and furthermore, the manufacturer was aware of this but hid their research and that cheaper alternatives to Trasylol are as effective in limiting blood loss but do not increase the risk of kidney damage. If you wish to contact a trasylol attorney click the preceding link.

Public Invitation to become a part of Legaldocs.com Free Legal Directory

Hi, I would like to invite you to add your website/clients websites to the legaldocs.com free attorney directory: Legaldocs.com, one of the most popular legal forms websites on the web, now has a free legal directory which offers a complete listing with links for attorneys and law firms.

The Legaldocs.com Legal Directory is currently in beta development and as a result has few listings. The site however is a very popular site (#1 in Google for Legal Documents among many other top listings) and we expect the directory to be beneficial both in terms of link popularity and eventually direct traffic.

We request that you provide a return link to legaldocs.com, but it is not a requirement.

The main directory page is here:
http://www.legaldocs.com/legaldir/listingIndex.aspx

You can sign up to add your listing here:
http://www.legaldocs.com/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2flegaldir%2fAddListing.aspx

Sincerely,
Chris Powell
Legaldocs.com
cpowell@legaldocs.com

Search Engine OptimizationTargeting Country Specific Results

Chris Powell Discusses Search Engine Optimization for International Markets Targeting Country Specific Results

Country Specific Results: Part One


Country Specific Results: Part Two

Optimizing for Competitive Localized Markets

The following video discusses search engine optimization for competitive localized markets like real estate seo, lawyer seo and mortgage seo.

Part 1


Part 2

Blog Catalog Verification

I recently submitted this blog to Blogcatalog.com and one of the requirements for submission is verifying your blog by providing a link back to Blogcatalog.com. The link I was asked to add to this blog is the following:

http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/internet/seo

To the reviewer, thanks for stopping by. I am hopeful you will add my blog to the catalog.

Thanks
Chris

How to Show up in search engines for multiple country specific results

In my work with international clients, particularly in Europe, I am often asked what is the best strategy to ensure that a client shows up in country specific results in search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN for multiple countries. For example, a client based in Germany with a .de domain may also consider Austria or Switzerland attractive markets, and they may wish to show up in the country specific results under google.de, google.at, and google.ch. Most people would tell you that you have to choose just one. However, there are a number of strategies that one might employ to break into the results for more than one of these.

For those of you that are not familiar with how country specific results work, the general rule is that to show up let's say in Google.de for Germany results only, your site either needs to be physically hosted on a German server or have a .de extension. This only allows for the site to be listed in results for one country however.

One solution to the dilemma above would be to use a country specific domain from one country but host the site on a server physically located in another. In the example above we may choose to use a .de domain while hosting the site physically on a server based in Austria. This would cover two markets, but we would still be without results for Switzerland. To solve this, one solution, although not perfect, would be to set of a sub domain and host the sub domain on a server in Switzerland. This will allow pages of the site to be listed in the country specific results for all three target countries.

You may be dealing with some additional problem here however. First, you are complicating your hosting situation. This is just a matter of management. If set up correctly this can be avoided, but it would take a competent IT team. Another potential issue would be duplicate content. You would want to have unique content at the sub domain as opposed to a duplicate of the main folder. If done correctly, in this instance, you would have all three target countries covered and your business could essentially target all three through country specific searches.