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Here and There: Local Search Rankings

Here and There: Local Search Rankings For Lawyers

While thinking about how to drum up more business and grow your practice, you have likely performed a fair number of Google searches to see how your rankings stack up against the competition for various relevant search phrases. You have performed these targeted searches from the comfort of your office, and even if you did…

Going Beyond Marketing Jargon to Discover How SEO Helps a Law Firm

Going Beyond Marketing Jargon to Discover How SEO Helps Law Firms

The way people find a lawyer has changed over the past 15 years. According to a FindLaw survey, in 2005, 65 percent of survey respondents said they would ask a friend or relative when trying to find a lawyer, and seven percent said they would search on the internet. In 2014, 38 percent said they…

Groupwise: How Google Might Harness Comparisons

Groupwise: How Google Might Harness Comparisons

Groupwise scoring functions using deep neural networks: New Google experiment may change the way webpages are ranked. Deciphering Google’s search algorithms so clients’ sites can perform well on search engine results pages (SERPs) has always been at the heart of a search marketer’s job. However, this is easier said than done. Google never formally announces…

Google Limits Search Results Per Domain for More Diversity

Google Limits Search Results Per Domain for More Diversity – How Does This Affect Law Firms?

Early June, Google released a change to how search results are handled and displayed. On the surface, the latest change seems like an oxymoron. Limiting search results to two pages per domain for more diversity begs the question of: What happens if a search query is relevant to more than one page in the domain…

SEO Hierarchy of Needs: A Guide for Beginners

SEO Hierarchy of Needs: A Guide for Beginner Law Firms

Think back to your college psychology classes. Remember Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the theory that states our human needs must be met in a certain order? For example, something like being respected by one’s peers does not matter if physiological needs like breathing and eating are not being met. Just as Maslow so neatly organized…

Merging SEO and Law Content For Optimal Search Performance

Merging SEO and Law Content For Optimal Search Performance

Creating quality online content is probably one of a law firm’s biggest goals. Getting it to potential clients in a way that appeals to them is another. They are separate concepts, separate arts and likely also separate teams at your firm. Even though SEO and content writing are complicated in different ways, they share a…

Choosing the Right Legal Marketing Mix for 2019

Choosing the Right Legal Marketing Mix for 2019

Most lawyers understand the importance of having a good marketing plan. But what many may not realize is that there is no formula for the perfect marketing mix guaranteed to work for all law firms. Adopting a singular, one-size-fits-all approach to marketing would mean ignoring the fact that no two law firms are the same.…

Google Deindexing Pages

UPDATE: Google Bug is Deindexing Pages: What to do if your law firm is affected

UPDATE: April 15, 2019 Google says they fixed the de-indexing bug but now are reporting issues within Google Search Console. Search Console is still recovering from the indexing issue we reported on last week. As a result, index coverage and enhancement reports were not updated recently & URL Inspector might not reflect live status, at…

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