I am often asked by small businesses or attorneys about blog length, and how long the optimum blog post should be. This is an important question because many business owners believe that their pages and blog posts will rank well if they look attractive.
In reality, if a blog post is too short, it won't rank well. Fashion may be obsessed with skinny models, but Google doesn't have much time for skinny blog posts. That's because the search engines assume under weight posts are starved of su...
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The Rights of Grandparents in Visitation and Custody Cases
When we talk about grandparents’ rights in family cases, the term can be misleading. Grandparents don’t have rights in a constitutional way. However, in every state, there are circumstances in which grandparents may be given some rights over children, ranging from custody to visitation.
The recognition of grandparents’ rights is a relatively new development, and there are variations from state to state. Most of the statutes have been in place for less than three decades. Every statute require...
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Five Top Tips to Make Your Webpages Show Up In Searches
In recent years, creating successful web pages has become an increasingly complicated art that involves a multitude of considerations.
A decade ago SEO was the only game in town, and it was easier to anticipate searches that would land up on your page by using key words and exact name titles. Although we have lived with search engine optimization (SEO) for some time, that’s not to say all small business owners are comfortable with it. Many hand it over to an Internet company that does its “ma...
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Why Talcum Powder is Killing Women
Many of the pills and medical devices that have proved deadly are prescribed for serious medical conditions.
But on occasions, we see products that have been linked to harmful side effects that seem to be innocuous. A good case in point is talcum powder. Although talc has been used for more than four decades by women, concerns that it has caused cancer in women have led to a spate of recent lawsuits.
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson was the subject of two class-action lawsuits file...
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Facebook as Medium for Serving Divorce Papers
Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have made the change from being time wasting distractions influential media in recent years. But social media has not been considered in the past as a means of serving divorce papers – until now. The comments of a judge in a case in New York has raised the possibility of “divorce by Facebook,” CNN reports.
Ellanora Arthur Baidoo from Brooklyn has been trying to divorce her husband for several years, according to her attorney. However, lawyer...
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Ten Top Tips for An Effective Law Firm Blog
Lawyers tend to be fastidious people. They would not be successful in what they do without a keen attention to detail. Appearance is also important to attorneys. When you show up in court, you want to look your best. How can a judge or jury respect your expert opinion, if you don't respect your own wardrobe?
In saying that many law firms fail to take the same approach to their websites. I still find websites out there that are the equivalent of 1974 in fashion sense. They are wearing facial hai...
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Fatal Accidents Double At West Virginia’s Fracking Sites
The boom in natural gas in West Virginia has brought prosperity to some previously deprived parts of the state. However, as the industry booms more workers are paying the ultimate price by losing the lives on the job, according to new figures.
Statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics found 13 workers in the state’s oil and gas industry died during the five-year period from 2008 to 2012. The figure is alarming because it’s more than double the number of workers w...
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Gay and Lesbian Immigration Issues in the Wake of Landmark Ruling
In June, 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the landmark case of United States vs. Windsor, which barred gay couples from the federal benefits attached to marriage. After the ruling, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made it clear her immigration agents would start accepting marriage-based visa applications from same-sex couples.
Napolitano stated in a press release “that all married couples are treated fairly and equally in the administratio...
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Affluenza and Why Being Rich May Get You Out of Jail Time After a DWI
Sixteen-year-old Ethan Couch, drove a pickup truck pickup at up to 70 mph drunk. He caused a crash that killed four pedestrians who were standing at the roadside.
In a case that has made national headlines, a judge sentenced him to 10 years' probation. The reason? He came from a rich family.
That's not a totally accurate summary but it's the way the case has played out in the media. The judge sentenced Couch after hearing a psychologist called by the defense, arguing he suffers from “affluen...
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Google’s Hummingbird Algorithm Change and Its Implications for Blogging
Over the last two years those folks at Google have been keeping bloggers busy with algorithm changes that effectively tear up the rulebook.
I should qualify that by saying there was no 'rule book' as such. Google tends to be cryptic with the information it releases. The rule, as they were accepted, were those developed by webmasters and writers themselves.
Bloggers had a good idea of how manipulate searches a few years ago which went along the lines of - stuff copy with key words, link like ...
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