A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client. - Proverb When many lawyers hear things like do-it-yourself legal forms, online legal tools and online legal question and answers they immediately cry: Harm! And there's little doubt that legal services consumers, like consumers of other professional services, who rely solely on […]
If part of your client development plan includes attracting potential clients on a local level, then you should spend some time understanding how to improve your law firm's local ranking on Google. Local legal search results are delivered to people who search for attorneys and law firm near their location. It's also worth noting that […]
Last week, during a Q&A, Andrey Lipattsev, Search Quality Senior Strategist at Google, revealed that links & content are the most important ranking signals that Google uses. The SEO part of the web went crazy. Which, for anyone who has ever ranked a website in Google, is hilarious. I get it. The internet SEO news […]
We've been encouraging you to make your law firm websites freaky fast for years. If you're a lawyer who regularly publishes, blogs or covers various legal news topics, now it's time to consider making them even faster. Last October, Google announced the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, for a faster, open mobile web: Today, after discussions […]
We don't think you should include links to your web designer / marketing vendor in your footer. Many web designers / developers / marketing vendors require their clients to include "credits" in their site footers. There are a variety of reasons that they do this. They might just want to showcase their work. They also […]
One. More. Time. No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google. There is no priority submit for Google. In fact, the only way to submit a site to Google directly is through our […]
You might need a new law firm website if: A relative built your website as a favor. Music plays (especially if it's .midi, this is real). A tiny digital version of you walks onto the page and begins talking. Your pages have pictures of gavels, flags and law books. You use flash. You use Joomla. […]
Will this be the year that you break bad internet marketing habits? 1. Resolve to Earn Positive Reviews When people ask me what the most important thing they can do to improve their web presence, I usually answer: earn more positive reviews from clients. No matter how someone hears about you, they expect to be […]
Search Engine Land recently reported about a new Facebook Professional Services area: Visitors to Professional Services are presented first with a page that has their current location preselected. Searches can be made within that area by typing into a dialog box that serves up business categories like plumbers, dentists, photographers, beauty salons, pharmacies, pizza places […]
The end of the year is a great time for preparing and prognosticating. Unfortunately, this also tends to be an exceptionally busy time of year. This tends to result in a failure by most lawyers to properly plan for the coming year. Don't be like most lawyers. The first step in preparing for 2016 is […]
