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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...

With smartphone and mobile device use on a drastic rise, mobile sites are becoming a necessity for many businesses. While a mobile site won't benefit every business, they can both increase leads as well as convert directly to sales for many businesses out their today. Some of the more common types of businesses that can benefit from mobile sites include... Content Driven News Sites/Blogs...

HO HO HO Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone! I'm feeling rather jolly this holiday season and am going to share a bit of interesting data.  Want to drive a bit more traffic to your website?  Good, listen up. Below is an analytics data set showing daily, organic traffic, collected over the past 18 months (June 08 - Dec 09) for just one of the website's we've worked on. Yo...