Jun 3

4 things your attorney website might be missing

Your website’s health is critical to the success of your online marketing efforts. Your website is a workhorse that serves many roles. It may be the first introduction potential clients have to your firm, it may serve as an informational resource, and it may simply confirm your professionalism and authority for referrals. In any capacity, your website should be generating leads for your firm.

Unfortunately, both design and technical issues can act as conversion deterrents. Poor functionality or a confusing…

Why you should be using Adwords Extensions

With Google Search dominating search queries with around 65 percent of market share, Google AdWords can help small and large law firms increase their inbound leads. However, specific keywords can be expensive, due to the volume and competitiveness of searches involving such words. In fact, “Attorney” and “Lawyer” are the fourth and sixth most expensive keywords on AdWords respectively.

Therefore, it is imperative that the clicks you are receiving equate to quality leads and conversions. A way to…

Six website conversion killers your firm can avoid

Rankings are up, traffic is up, you’re in the local map 3-pack — it looks like your SEO efforts are paying off. More people are finding your website through organic search. Internet life is good.

Except, for some reason, leads are flat. People are coming to your website, but they aren’t converting.

Poor conversion can destroy even the best marketing campaigns. If you are making an investment in bringing visitors to your website, it should be generating leads. And…

Focus on simplicity to boost lead generation

Lead generating attorney websites have several features in common. A lead generating website will make it easy for visitors to contact the firm by prominently featuring a phone number and giving visitors the option to fill out a simplified form on every page. Many such websites also incorporate a live chat feature.

Lead generating websites will also contain some form of social proof, from industry and peer review seals to client testimonials, all of which show prospective clients they…

Quality content checklist for lawyers

It is no secret that content is important to search rankings. And not just any content, quality content.

Quality, however, is a nebulous word. Google is quick to say it wants quality but less eager to define exactly what that means. The term quality may also symbolize different things to different people, in terms of characteristics like length, style, subject matter or even type of content.

On top of that, many people can write quality content. As Rand Fishkin…

Highlights from the Moz 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors Survey

Moz released the results of its 2017 Local Ranking Factors Survey at the beginning of the week. The survey contains insights from over three dozen SEO industry experts about what it takes to make it to the local map pack and rank well in organic search.

Participants were asked to rate a number of local signals from the physical location of a business to the volume of quality content on an entire website, and over 100 other…

Back to basics: 10 essential website functions all firms should monitor

Technology provides myriad opportunities for your law firm’s website to stand out. With a little creativity, your team can build a site with engaging features, helpful pages and modern design. Animations? Interactive content? The sky is the limit.

What you choose to include, of course, hinges on whether a particular feature advances your law firm’s SEO goals. Does that animation help your visitors or confuse them? Does that image make the page design or just make it load…

Find your firm’s content sweet spot

You produce content. Maybe even a lot of it. You want people to see your content. You want users to like it, share it and generally interact with it. There are several ways to measure how a piece of content performs, from a click-through to time on page to a link acquisition. Some of these interactions can be valuable, while others are nice eye candy.

For example, a Facebook post linking to an article may receive…

Secure your website: Google sees a 32 percent increase in hacks in 2016

Google published a 2016 #NoHacked year in review Monday on its Webmaster Central Blog. Its chief finding is that the number of websites suffering attacks increased by 32 percent from 2015 to 2016.

Google started #NoHacked as a weeklong social campaign in August 2014 and has continued the work with posts and advice during the summer of 2015 and throughout the winter holiday season in 2016.

The good news? Google noticed…

Content marketing tips: start with what you have

If you answer the question, “Why is my firm producing content?” with, “Because people keep telling me to,” that’s not good enough. Lawyers can have successes with content marketing, but not if it is aimless or misdirected.

All you have to do is produce the perfect content. And still find the time to be a great lawyer. Easy, right? Before you expend resources turning your firm into a publisher, take a look a the content you already have…

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Jun 3

4 things your attorney website might be missing

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Why you should be using Adwords Extensions

May 12

Six website conversion killers your firm can avoid

May 5

Focus on simplicity to boost lead generation

Apr 28

Quality content checklist for lawyers

Apr 15

Highlights from the Moz 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors Survey

Apr 5

Back to basics: 10 essential website functions all firms should monitor

Mar 29

Find your firm’s content sweet spot

Mar 22

Secure your website: Google sees a 32 percent increase in hacks in 2016

Mar 16

Content marketing tips: start with what you have