One of the most frustrating parts of search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing your law firm online is how websites at the top of the search engine results page (SERP) are held in place by the traffic they receive because they are ranked so well. Ranking near the top of the page nets more visitors, Read more about How to Leapfrog Your Competition By Scoring a Featured Snippet[…]
One great source for a legal blog post is a recently decided court case in your law firm’s practice area. Not only does covering the case show that you’re up-to-date on the developments in your field; it also provides a great way to effortlessly and organically drop internal links to the practice area and landing Read more about Blog Sample – Business Litigation and Recent Court Cases[…]
There has long been a push for law firms to train their online marketing efforts on their local area. By focusing on local SEO, law firms can concentrate their marketing dollars on the potential clients in their vicinity, rather than those who are far away and are less likely to pick up the phone and Read more about Hyper Local SEO is Another Red Herring for Law Firm Marketing[…]
One of the experts at Google, John Mueller, regularly hosts an “office hour” session on YouTube, where he fields questions from search engine optimization (SEO) professionals and other people who run a website. Some of the things that Mueller says during these relatively informal sessions, though, can seem to tip Google’s hand and reveal important Read more about Does Google Think It’s Beaten the Backlink Blitz?[…]
We’ve covered bounce rate before. That post, however, focused on the fact that a “good” bounce rate depends on the context surrounding your website. Here, we’re going to show how to use high bounce rates to identify other problems on your site, and how to fix them. Refresher: Bounce Rate and Why It’s Contextual Your Read more about Using High Bounce Rates to Detect Bigger Website Issues[…]
The internet is constantly in flux. Website owners can delete their site, migrate to a new domain, delete old articles, or move them into archive folders. If you’ve linked to one of those sites or pages from your law firm’s blog, your link will be broken. If a reader clicks on it, they’ll be presented Read more about 3 Reasons to Fix Broken Outbound Links in Your Legal Blog[…]
In our last blog post, we gave 4 reasons why you should consider using lists in a legal blog post. It was nothing earth shattering and many attorneys who handle their own online legal content know that bulleted or numbered lists can be helpful, even if they haven’t pondered the why. What many lawyers don’t Read more about 2 List Types: Laundry, and Subheader Stand-In[…]
Whether you love them or hate them, lawyer referral services are showing a newfound interest in online marketing. Earlier this year, they broke Google’s algorithm for its local SEO box, forcing the search engine to tweak its system. Now, they’re engaging in some good old fashioned competitive keyword marketing. Prominent Texas Lawyer Sues Referral Service Read more about Competitive Keyword Advertising Reaches the Legal Field[…]
In our last blog post, we recounted a recent study that found that lots of blogs have two basic structural problems: They have lots of logistical pages that are not blog posts, and their blog articles are far from the site’s home page. That second issue did not surprise us, given the slow evolution in Read more about Link Depth and the Trend Towards New Online Content[…]
A new study looked at how blogs tend to be structured. While the data sample is small, it does suggest 2 concrete takeaways that can undermine your legal blog’s potential on the SEO (search engine optimization) front. Ensuring that you are not making these same mistakes can drastically help the strength of your law firm’s Read more about Study Finds Lots of Blogs Have Basic Structural Problems[…]
Google recently started a YouTube series where its search experts provided quick answers to simple questions about search engine optimization (SEO). The first episode dealt with a question we’ve tackled before on this blog: Do outbound (or external) links help or hurt your site’s ranking? The YouTube series got off to a rocky start, though. Read more about Google’s New YouTube Series Got Off to a Rocky Start[…]
Successful law firm websites and legal blogs create a strong flow of web traffic, better rankings, and a reputation for excellence that ends with clients signing the dotted line. However, having a strong web presence is not all rainbows and roses. As search engines recognize your website’s importance and relevance for certain search queries, so Read more about Backlink Fishing Expeditions and How to Respond to Them[…]