Real Estate Development: How the Landscape of SEO Has Changed
Law firms, especially big law firms, tend to rely on SEO to market their practices online. The age-old question is: how do I get to Page One on Google? The new problem is that Page One of Google is changing. Leveraging search results has always been more of an art than a science; and, the picture is shifting again. Google's algorithms and search results pages get tweaked from time to time, and it pays to monitor trends, which develop over time . One current trend is the increasing exposure of paid advertising on the sought-after first page of Google search results. Looking at a first page result now versus those same results, even as compared to a few years ago, yields a significant difference. There are more paid advertising results (generally PPC) at the top of the page than ever before, and the prominence of those ads has been amplified. Furthermore, map results are displayed directly below paid advertising, in a more prominent way than those results have pre ...