Best Rank's Blog

You have no doubt heard about the many benefits that blogging on a regular basis can have for your website.  However, finding time to put together an interesting post that will be entertaining and useful to readers can be a daunting task for anyone- especially busy business owners with several things on their plate.  I regularly work with clients who were diligent in posting during...

Keeping up with the ever changing Search Engine Marketing Industry can be extremely difficult. Who wants to spend their entire day reading RSS feed after RSS feed? Well now you do not have to! Let Best Rank do the work. We are proud to introduce a new weekly feature to the Best Rank Blog called “Weekly Search Marketing Recap” where each week we report on the hottest news stories in th...

As one of the most popular and widely used content management systems, Wordpress has quickly grown into a platform that can be used for anything from small single user blogs to high traffic business and e-commerce websites. While the default Wordpress instillation provides a variety of great features, it is the wide array of available (and free) plugins that really make Wordpress a great solutio...

Even though we've had it up on our site for a few weeks, I'd like to announce the Organic SEO Click Distribution Calculator tool, which can tell you how many estimated organic clicks and dollars you would receive from a single keyword ranking position in Google. Kind of a neat tool because if you were ranking say at position six for a particular keyword but wanted to know about how many more...

Has it been almost six months since my last drupal module post?  Well then, time for another drupal module round up! Last week after attending the monthly San Diego Drupal Group meeting there was an interesting module discussion between all the drupal enthusiasts, and so here are some of the latest and greatest modules discussed and used by Best Rank: Boost - I actually had a chance t...

In November of last year, Google announced some cool new features in Adwords.  These new features allow advertisers to provide searchers with a more in-depth look at their products or services through images, descriptions, pricing, etc.  The best thing- all of the features reside within the ads themselves, which help to enhance advertisers existing PPC efforts.  Currently,...

Now that Google is expected to pull site speed into their ranking algorithm, could this negatively affect your rankings? Should website owners look to improve their site speed?  While Google’s ranking algorithm takes into account hundreds of different factors, I personally can’t imagine site speed will play a major factor on most site's rankings. With that said, will a website...

Today I noticed seomoz launched a new link analysis tool that really has the seo community buzzing and for good reason: Open Site Explorer is a comprehensive link analysis tool that is web based, super fast and cuts right to the point! Built on top of the linkscape API, this new tool is sure to make some really big waves in the days ahead. It's free to use until after the initial 48 hour free...

Nielsen has just released the latest search market statistics that clearly indicate Google dominating the search market in December 2009. Google received 67% of the 9.9 bill searches conducted in December. Top 10 Search Providers for December 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) Rank Provider Searches (000)...

By now, most people in the web industry have heard of Caffeine, Google's latest update to their search engine.  Basically, Caffeine promises to increase the speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of search results.  In August, Google released a developer's preview of Caffeine to get user feedback, asking people to compare and contrast Caffeine's new features with Google's current search...