1&1 has recently been advertising pretty heavily for its MyWebsite product. Have you seen this commercial: They claim that setting up a business website is easy whether you're a lawyer, a photographer, or a beauty salon. But is the 1&1 MyWebsite product a good choice? Price Like most turn-key web-based website solutions, the 1&1 MyWebsite […]
I have always reasoned that the best place to understand how to improve your visibility in Google is Google itself. So, I tend to spend some time in the Google Webmaster Help Forum. Recently, I came across a thread in which a law firm website administrator was trying to understand why the firm's site went […]
If you know anything about search engines, you know that links pointing to your website can help your site appear higher in search engine results. Which leads many website owners to conclude that they simply need more links. Which in turn creates a market for folks who increase the number of links that point to […]
Have you heard this one? A guy gets into a car accident. He's injured pretty badly. He has a friend from college who is a lawyer, but she works patent litigation. However, she knows someone from law school that handles motor vehicle accident injury cases. She gives the guy the attorney's name. The guy searches […]
Before I make any recommendations to a law firm about an internet marketing or search engine optimization campaign, I always ask them what they know about their competition. More often than not, the answer is not much. While many lawyers have a pretty good idea about who there competition is generally, they don't really know […]
If you haven't noticed, competition for Google real estate is fierce. It wasn't all too long ago that search results could be broken into two general categories, organic and paid. Today, with universal search, we know that search results include news, video, map, and socially modified listings. And while all of these should be considered […]
I've run into a handful of attorneys that want nothing to do with having their image or photograph on the firm's website. I'm not sure if the aversion comes from modesty, self-consciousness, or some other reason. The bottom line is that studies show it can be more effective to use photos of real lawyers vs […]
When many people think about search engine optimization, they immediately jump to concepts like using keywords on your web pages, and building links to your website. No don't get me wrong, optimizing your web pages with keywords and acquiring new links are very important to getting found in search engines. But before we jump to […]
I received an email yesterday from a client asking if I would create a new user account for access to their WordPress website. They indicated that an individual needed access in order to perform keyword research for the firm. From the little bit of information I was provided, something wasn't adding up. I didn't understand […]
We spend a lot of time talking about things that lawyers can do to increase their visibility online. From developing web content, to acquiring links, to getting business citations, there are a host of things that legal professionals can do to increase their visibility to their target audiences. However, the things that lawyers do offline, […]
