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New Facebook Pages: A Guide for Social Media Marketers

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Law Firm News

Law Firm News Wiki on Zimbio...

This is a test in progress to gauge the impact of posting articles to Zimbio to improve SEO. Check back here in the future for any conclusions or comments. That's all for now.

Christina Fernandes Joins MBBP as Associate

WALTHAM, MA — Law firm Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton has announced another new attorney hire — Christina M. Fernandes. According to a news item posted to its law firm web site, Ms. Fernandes was formerly an associate with Goodwin Procter in Boston, MA. She practices general corporate law, representing clients in mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings, fund formations and other corporate matters.

For more law firm news at MBBP, click the link.

Search Engine Positioning Tool

Just a quick note: Add this handy tool to your SEO toolbelt: Search Engine Keyword Position tool from the folks at SEOChat.

Two Great Tools for Web Marketers

Check out these two great free tools for web marketers. First is a Google Site Map generator — a handy tool for managing the sitemap.xml file as part of Google's WebMaster Tools. The second is Ping-o-matic for getting the word out on RSS feeds — especially useful if you have any manual RSS feeds.

If you have a favorite tool to share, please comment. Thanks.

New Hampshire Law Firm RSS

Concord, NH law firm Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell is another law firm that now has incorporated RSS technology into its web site. The firm publishes a lot of news and articles that are posted to the web site and sent out monthly to subscribers of its award-winning e-newsletter. However, now those who are interested can subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up with updates as they happen. Click here to subscribe the RSS feed.

For more on RSS feeds and what they are see this Wikipedia entry.

Injectables and Facial Fillers Continue To Offer More Non-surgical Alternatives to Anti-aging Treatments

In her latest plastic surgery blog post, Massachusetts plastic surgeon Christine Hamori, MD, speaks to the uptrend in what is known as the "Radiesse lift." States Hamori, "This non-surgical, mid-facelift really helps smooth out folds around the nose as well as recreate the "apples of the cheeks" that so many patients loose in their 30's and 40's."

In her blog, Hamori often talks about the trends she sees in her cosmetic surgery and skin spa practice as well as introducing new procedures. The board-certified plastic surgeon has been dramatically increasing the number of non-surgical treatments she offers while continuing to maintain a busy surgical practice. For more information, go to her web site at christinehamori.com, which contains many before and after photos.

Boston Malpractice Lawyer RSS Feed

Keep up with news from Lubin & Meyer, PC: Boston medical malpractice lawyer Lubin & Meyer PC now publishes an RSS feed in conjunction with its medical malpractice web site. To keep abreast of the latest verdicts and settlements and other news accomplished by the innovative leaders in med mal law, you can subscribe to the medical malpractice news feed. Each year the firm leads the way with the most settlements of $1 million or more as tracked by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and has achieved several of the state's largest medical malpractice verdicts. The firm's attorneys are also licensed to practice in New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

Will Binding Arbitration Replace Med-Mal Lawsuits?

This via Medical Malpractice Law News, which carries daily news headlines — a trend by West Coast physicians to require patients to sign binding arbitration agreements to reduce medical malpractice claims according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer titled, Arbitration a growing trend in health care.

Social Security Disability Lawyer Gets New Look

Social Security disability lawyers at Doherty, Cella, Keane & Associates have a new look and new web site to facilititate handling claims for social security disability claimants. With offices in Beverly, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., the firm services disability and beneficiary claimants nationwide. Senior partners Christopher Doherty, Laura Cella-Donovan and Martin Keane are highly experienced and focus their practice exclusively on Social Security law.

In addition to representing disabled persons, the lawyers also provides services to long-term disability carriers in these areas: file review and case recommendations; training staff in Social Security disability practices; recovery of overpayments, via electronic transfer through an attorney escrow account; obtaining status of Social Security claims; filing applications for dependent benefits; providing online accessibility to our database for updated case status and user-driven reports; and preparing specialized reports tailored to insurance company needs.

Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict Rules Against Surgeons

LOWELL — In what is being called one of the largest jury verdicts in the Merrimack Valley, the estate of a Lowell woman who died 19 days after surgery to remove ovarian cysts, was awarded approximately $2.5 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against two surgeons. See the full article on this case in the Lowell Sun. The case was handled by Boston medical malpractice lawyers Lubin & Meyer.

Good SEO Research Tool

Just a quick note on Smart Page Rank, a great tool for researching back links for SEO purposes. Don't know how accurate it is, but I'm assuming it is. Please provide your feedback on this tool... whether you like it, or find problems with it... Or please suggest another, better one! Thanks.

Law Related Blogs

Two law blogs of note with Massachusetts roots: Massachusetts Consumer Rights Blog and Medical Malpractice Law Blog. The second is a general news and resouces site with special focus on med mal happenings in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Just a note to bookmark and see where these go.

Duplicate Content Got You Down?

Use this little tool to find out if your web site has duplicate content issues.
Duplicate Content Checker
There is also a link to follow with more details on the duplicate content issue. Every web publisher should be aware of this issue.

GCG Represents Bow Mills in Merger with Merrimack County

CONCORD, NH – Law Firm Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, is pleased to announce the merger of Bow Mills Bank and Trust with and into Merrimack County Savings Bank became effective on May 1, 2007. Attorneys W. John Funk, Susan B. Hollinger and Denis J. Maloney represented Bow Mills in the merger with a total transaction value of $22,707,945. The branches will continue to operate independently until the weekend of July 21. Read more on the bank merger.

Pay-per-click Class

I am enrolled to take a full day class on Google Adwords pay-per-click in Boston and will report back here on the most startling revelations. Personally, I think Google Adwords is an overly complex and hard-to-navigate system with too many variables and too much mystery of the quality of clicks. I'm hoping to learn something valuable from it all that will change my mind. Recently, I have been exploring and experimenting with Google Adword campaigns and find it to be expensive. I prefer working for success in organic search results with tried and true, white hat optimization techniques. Nothing beats hot, fresh, steamy content that is timely and relevant. Quality information that serves humans is the best food for search engines. That's been my experience with professional services web sites... Everything from topics such as greenhouse gas trading, employment and immigration, legislative histories, consumer law, medical malpractice lawyer, etc. I'm getting more and more inquiries from businesses and law firm in Massachusetts (MA), New Hampshire (NH), Rhode Island (RI) and Maine (ME) and beyond, where clients are more aware about SEO but not always willing to pay for it. Google Adwords is still not well understood by mainstream public.

Duplicate Content Trap?

This tip from Jayde. Can anyone confirm or dispute it?

An easy step that can help avoid potential ranking loss from duplicate content reprimands is to make sure there aren’t four or five different URLs navigating to the same page. Google views these two domains below as separate entities and if the content is exact, they can take punitive measures against the offending site.

mysite.com
http://www.mysite.com

To address potential duplicate content penalties, manipulate your.htaccess file and redirect secondary domains to the preferred listing. This means every time a web user enters the mysite.com address without the preferred prefix, they are redirected to the correct domain.

Add the following code to your .htaccess file (change the "mysite" to your domain):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Basketball Camps Massachusetts - Bill Curley Clinics in Duxbury and Plymouth, MA

Summer basketball camp dates have been set for Bill Curley Basketball Clinics in Duxbury and Plymouth, Massachusetts for boys and girls of many ages starting in June. Click here for more details at billcurleybasketball.com.

Vermont Personal Injury Attorney Web Site Indexed

This Vermont personal injury law firm is a big needle in the haystack. Efforts to overcome Google overlooking this site on keyword related searches has worked. No tricks, just straight up, honest, organic search engine optimization here. Results sometimes take a while, especially in the medical malpractice and personal injury world, which is highly competitive. The site may have been in the "sandbox" or being penalized for some optimization techniques used prior to our efforts. Sometimes you never know.

Google site map experience

I'm having mixed experience with Google's site map function. It's a bit of a cumbersome process and an excruciating waiting game. I'm finding increasing interest from law firm clients in raising their visibility on the web through both organic SEO techniques and dipping their toes into PPC advertising. So far, I see the PPC advertising as in the early mode. Most folks still ignore it, especially when trustworthiness is a big part of the purchase. This vermont personal injury law firm is an example where switching to a new URL has caused a drop in the visibility of their attorneys. Some sites are just not built to be search engine friendly. Once those shortcomings are corrected, and once Google finally makes a good index of the new swiss-cheesy site, then things tend to turn around pretty dramatically. I will report back on this as things go. For more info see this organic SEO article.

Vermont Personal Injury Attorney Gets New URL

Vermont personal injury law firm Sylvester & Maley, Inc. recently changed the URL for its web site. The new web site is located at www.sylvestermaley.com. Vermont personal injury attorneys practicing there include:
Alan Sylvester
John Maley
Michael Brow
Amy Sylvester
Christopher Maley

The Vermont law firm handles personal injury, automobile accident, medical malpractice and products liability claims arising throughout the state of Vermont. This includes representation of out-of-state residents who were harmed while in Vermont, traveling, vacationing, attending college, or who have received medical treatment at one of the state's health care facilities. We also represent Vermont residents for claims arising from injuries or deaths which occur outside the state.

SEO Tips

A long overdue pointer to this article titled Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Web Site's Search Engine Ranking.
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Law Links | Health Links Gets New URL

Law Links | Health Links, a web log connecting legal, health and marketing news and resources with a New England focus, is now being published under a new URL. The site is now located at http://lawlinkshealthlinks.blogspot.com/. Please update your links.

The original blog was hacked into by someone who cracked the login/password, and replaced the entire content of the blog with meaningless stuff. Blogger beware.

Bill Curley Basketball Camp Dates for 2006

Bill Curley Basketball Camp / Clinic dates for the summer of 2006 are as follows:

Plymouth, MA camp:
June 26 – 29, 2006 - Plymouth South Middle School
Monday thru Thursday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
488 Long Pond Road, Plymouth, MA 02360

Duxbury, MA camp:
July 24– 28: Duxbury High, Middle and Alden Schools
Monday thru Friday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
130 St George Street, Duxbury, MA 02332-3871

Ages 10-18.

Skills + Will weekly clinic:
June 7 – July 26
Boys Tuesdays 5 - 7 P.M. Girls Wednesdays 5 - 7 P.M.
FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE PLAYERS ONLY
A weekly Clinic designed to work on Basketball Fundamentals, Functional Training, and Game Time Performance. Structured games will be a part of each session to allow the player to build upon newly developed skills.

See web site for more information on basketball camps and clinics
Bill Curley Basketball Clinic.

Who Links To You?

Ever notice how Google's "link:" command doesn't return comprehensive results for those pages that link to the page you enter? For instance, say I want to know which web pages are linking to my web site. I enter [link:http://www.infoworks1.com/] and it says there are 25 pages that link to my site, and it displays about 20 of them as some are repetitive. However, I know that there are other links from other sites that link to me (legitimate sites and legitimate links). A better way to find out who links to you is to use the same query on alltheweb.com. In this case, entering the query [link:http://www.infoworks1.com/] reveals there are 218 pages linking to my site and it shows 34 of them -- including those links I expect to see from sites I know link to me. Can anyone shed light on this? Is there are reason Google is ignoring some of the sites?

Best Small Law Firm Web Sites

What makes a good small law firm web site? Check out these links for some answers:

Infoworks! Client Chosen As Best Law Firm Web Site - Small Firm; Best Law Firm Web Sites; Law firm web trends in sales and service era; more to come...

Looking for info on drug abuse? addiction? alcoholism?

There's a new web site for kids, teens and adults in Charlestown, Massachusetts that is gathering information about drugs, alcohol, addiction, treatment, intervention and prevention. It's a project of the Charlestown Substance Abuse Coalition. Learn more at csac-chad.org.

Charlestown Substance Abuse Coalition Launches Web Site

The Charlestown Substance Abuse Coalition (CSAC) and Charlestown Against Drugs (CHAD) are putting together a web site of information and resources around the prevention, intervention and treatment of alcohol and substance abuse for residents of Charlestown, Massachusetts. It includes a Substance Abuse Treatment Resource guide outlining local treatment options.
www.csac-chad.org.

Jury Awards $23.8 Million in Cerebral Palsy Medical Malpractice Suit

Lubin & Meyer's web site has the story of another big win... a $24 million jury award, believed to be one the largest in the history of Massachusetts. There is also an article in the Boston Herald, Jury: Doctors Botched Delivery.

Breast Augmentation - Submuscular Preferred Placement

Dr. Christine Hamori notes in her plastic surgery blog her preference for breast implants... "For breast augmentation, I prefer FDA-approved round smooth saline implants placed beneath the muscle. This procedure may cause a bit more discomfort postoperatively, but I believe the pectoralis major muscle helps support the long-term shape and position of the implant." See her breast procedures page on her web site, and her before-and-after photo gallery on Breast Implants 411.

Healthcare Management Trends Through 2010

Applied Management Systems, Inc. (AMS), healthcare management consultants with offices in Burlington, Massachusetts and Columbia, Maryland, has released its Top Ten Healthcare Trends for 2010, which identifies major pressure points for healthcare executives and how healthcare management dollars can be most wisely spent for organizational success. Read the Top 10 Trends in press release form, or download a PDF that compares the top ten healthcare trends today with the top ten healthcare trends of the future.

Applied Management Systems provides healthcare management services in three divisions: Systems Engineering, Accounts Receivable Management and Health Information Services. They provide the healthcare industry with operational consulting in benchmarking, revenue cycle management, supply chain management, strategic planning, and health information management.See the AMS web site at http://www.aboutams.com.

New Hampshire Evaluates Wastewater Options in Seacoast Region

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) and The Great Bay Estuary Commission recently announced a study of future options to address the region’s wastewater management needs. Managing the increasing volume of treated wastewater and determining how to dispose of septage is one of the biggest challenges facing the Seacoast region over the next decade, according to State Senator Russell Prescott, who sponsored Senate Bill 70 and chairs the Great Bay Estuary Commission. “As a result of the forward thinking of the Strafford Regional Planning Commission and other local groups, this study will ensure that we review the issues involved and that citizens of this area have an understanding of the financial and environmental impacts of addressing the region’s future needs,” Prescott added. For more information, see the project web site at www.coastalclear.org.