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By Alex Miranda

OK you have your WordPress site up and running. After doing all your research, going to WordCamps, WordPress meetups, and talking to SEO experts you installed the proper plugins. It is now time to publish your first blog post. Wait a  minute…..Why am I not getting loads of traffic to my website?

It may be because you have not modified the update services on your WordPress writing settings. You see, every time you publish a blog post, WordPress  automatically notifies popular Update Services by sending a ping.

SolicitorLinks, the most search-engine-friendly solicitor directory in the UK, goes live in September 2010. The launch of SolicitorLinks (www.solicitorlinks.co.uk) is the culmination of many months’ work by a team of search-engine-optimisation experts and industry insiders. It gives solicitors who want to be found online a much better chance of being picked out from a crowded and increasingly competitive market.

“Most people never use a solicitor until something unexpected happens,” says James Hughes, Webmaster at SolicitorLinks. “That’s when they turn to the internet for help. They need legal advice in a hurry, and the easiest route is to search online.”

He adds, “In the past, much of that work has gone to solicitors and law firms with the skills and resources to invest in website optimisation. With the launch of SolicitorLinks, any firm of solicitors has a fighting chance of being found on page 1 of the big search engines.”

The straightforward layout of SolicitorLinks makes it easy to use for solicitors and their potential clients. There’s no clutter on the home page, just a simple interactive map and an alphabetical list of towns, cities, and counties. Any first-time visitor can find a good law firm in their area in one or two clicks.

Solicitors who want to get their business name at the top of the SolicitorLinks directory can register in a few seconds. A premier listing costs just £99 a year, while an enhanced listing goes for just £49 a year. A standard listing is absolutely free.

Registration catapults solicitors up the main search-engine listings. That’s because SolicitorLinks is the most search-engine-friendly solicitor directory in the UK. It’s been designed to score extremely well for typical searches such as ‘solicitors in Aberdeen’, ‘solicitors Bristol’, ‘solicitor in Oxford’ etc. Once the site goes live, potential clients searching for a solicitor using popular geographical terms of that type are likely to find a SolicitorLinks entry on the first page. Clicking that link would take them straight to the SolicitorLinks directory for their town, city, or county.

To see how SolicitorLinks works – or to register a law firm – visit www.solicitorlinks.co.uk.

TheCooksDen, an online cooking journal, today launched CookSearch – a new search engine focused exclusively on scouring the web’s best cooking pages. CookSearch makes researching and finding cooking information of all kind faster than with a generalized search engine.

The CookSearch search engine can be found at TheCooksDen.com/search

Using Google technology, CookSearch searches the entire internet but focuses results on a hand-selected list of the best cooking websites and blogs. This specialized focus allows CookSearch to provide only high-quality results while filtering out irrelevant sites and pages.

Leading industry websites included in CookSearch results include recipe sites such as Epicurious.com and AllRecipes.com, discussion forums such as Chow.com and all-inclusive sites such as BonAppetit.com, as well as many others. Site owners who wish to have their sites included in CookSearch should contact TheCooksDen.com.

Resources such as recipes, techniques, product reviews and industry news will be featured in CookSearch.

Topic-specific search engines such as TheCooksDen’s CookSearch are part of an emerging movement toward specialized search. These tools provide a superior search experience by using human expertise coupled with Google’s general-purpose search technology. According to Ken Aversano of TheCooksDen, “Specialized search engines work extremely well for topics with such a wide variety of content. So many sites offer content with such diverse levels of quality, it’s not always to find what you’re looking for. CookSearch is an excellent tool for solving that problem.”

TheCooksDen is a leading online portal for cooking information of all types. Product reviews, industry news and recipes are among OnlyKnives’ featured topics. TheCooksDen has been providing lively reviews and discussion of cooking and industry news since 2008.