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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Building a Legal Information Hub to Improve Search Rankings

Here is an advanced strategy that will give you an edge over your competition: build your own legal information hub. There are a number of good reasons for doing this, such as just attracting traffic, but for this discussion the main advantage is that it gives you a way to guide search engine spiders to pages you want them to find.

If you use social networking, article distribution, or any of the other content-based strategies that we recommend, then you want to make sure those pages get found. But you'd like to make that happen without directly linking to those sites. Otherwise, you've created two-way links, when what you want are one-way links.

If you own an information hub site, then you can use it to guide the search engines to any site you want without having two-way links between your main site and sites that link to you. It may become that the information hub itself ends up ranking higher than your main site for numerous long-tail keywords, which is another advantage. Even though the site will be very focused on providing information, it will still feature your brand and a very soft marketing message.

RSS feeds give you an easy way to display content on your information hub that updates itself. We may cover the technical aspects of how to do that in another post (or you can hire Work Media to do it). It's really not difficult.

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3 Comments:

At March 17, 2009 4:48 PM, Blogger John G. Watts said...

Just found your blog off linkedin - will look forward to a future post on how to create the hub you discussed in this article.

Good information on this site - I appreciate it!

John Watts
www.alabamaconsumer.com

 
At October 14, 2009 8:42 PM, Blogger Brate said...

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