Sometimes the simplest solutions are the most effective.  For instance, our SEO company has a number of link-building strategies and techniques that we use depending on the client; however, sometimes the best way to build links is also the easiest - just ask for them.

As always, here are our SEO company’s favorite links and blog posts this week:

SEM Insights shares tips for search marketing in a recession.

As usual, here are our SEO company’s favorite search engine optimization and internet marketing links of the week:

News that surprises absolutely no one here at SEOGroup: Ars Technica reports that when comes to search engine market share, Google takes first place with the rest of the search engines in a distant second. 

As always, here are our SEO company’s favorite search engine optimization and internet marketing related links of the week.

Wondering about whether or not having a presence on Twitter would be good for your brand?  SugarRae has performed “an actual non-big-brand” Twitter case study.  The Wall Street Journal also featured an article about Twitter this week.

As the majority of our readers are likely already aware, getting high quality links to your site is a critical aspect of search engine optimization.  While there are almost as many ways to go about getting links as there are SEO companies, one way to ensure that the linkerati in your niche (the other bloggers who tend to link out to content they like) notices your blog or website to mention them by name and link to their site.  Rohit Bhargava, author of the Influential Marketing Blog, coined a term for this sort of attention-getting strategy - he called it “egomunnication“. 

As always, here are our SEO company’s favorite blog posts and articles this week.

Search Engine Land has an article by Aaron Wall (of SEO Book) that covers how to get brand-new sites to rank quickly.

Here our SEO company’s favorite articles and blog posts this week:

Search Engine Guide has begun a series of posts that cover the seven building blocks of a destination website, and they are chock-full of solid advice and tips, especially their first point about great content and expert information.

Here are our Chicago SEO company’s favorite posts from around the web this week:

First of all, SEOGroup is now on Twitter!

Search Engine Land has a great post that covers Social Responsibility and Small Business and participating in the local community in a constructive way (beyond just offering their goods and services) can help a business rank more highly and add more positive listings and reviews in the SERPs. Besides, in addition to those extremely valid reasons, doing good can be its own reward.

Many people who are unfamiliar with the search engine optimization industry assume that it is something entirely focused on technology - the process of designing and developing websites and finding tricky ways to dominate the SERPs (or they have the even more negative perception that SEO companies are all black hat types on step removed from spammers).  However, this hardly the case.

Here are our favorite search engine optimization and online marketing related posts this week:

From SEOMoz, a great checklist for website optimization reviews (alternatively, you could try our free SEO tool to start your evaluation process).