Google releases updates on a daily basis but a few times a year, they do a broad core update. The June Core Update was followed by a lot of ranking turbulence and a crackdown on Google My Business term violations. But ultimately, most of CLM’s law firms saw their organic positions improve after the dust settled.
Google announced the algorithm update today on Twitter:
Later today, we are releasing a broad core algorithm update,…
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When marketing statistics show that a large part of today’s financial clout is in the hands of older audiences, it only makes good sense to adapt a marketing strategy to reach them. However, that does not seem to be happening due to some flawed assumptions and previous less than spectacular marketing campaigns based on those flawed assumptions. Instead, the trend is to market to millennials, the largest portion of the population at about 75.3 million, and exclude older individuals.
Marketing…
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Records, cassettes, CDs, mp3 – this is the evolution of portable recordings. Now that we are in the streaming era of digital media, new ways have emerged for you listen to music, books, and shows wherever you go. One company that provides streaming digital media is Spotify.
Spotify is a streaming service that provides access content from entertainers and other professionals all over the world. At the basic…
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UPDATE: April 15, 2019
While the indexing issue has been resolved, Google is reporting related 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 the moment.
— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) April 15, 2019
UPDATE: April 9, 2019
Google says they expect the error to…
In the ever-changing world of law firm marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), relatively short and weak pages generally cause more harm than good for website owners. That is especially true in the legal world, where current and prospective clients are looking for more information via long-form content. Long-form content consists of extensive print media combined with photos, graphics, videos and other complementary multi-media content.
The idea is to create a unique user experience, while providing…
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Most attorneys view their website as a platform that tells prospective clients what their law firm offers. However, it is often hard to determine what exactly people care about when they visit a website. Custom Legal Marketing (CLM) decided to find out and shares the results in its latest Law Firm SEO Video Series.
As part of the company’s website development process, CLM seeks feedback from focus groups made up of individuals who have…
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Since the early 2000s, law firms strived to secure the No. 1 position in Google’s organic search results. That ranking provided the best volume of relevant traffic to their websites. Now, the spot to secure is position zero, the place for featured snippets.
Google’s featured snippet is a box at the top of the search engine results page (SERP) that aims to highlight content from a website that does the best job answering the…
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“Don’t read the comment section.”
It’s advice we hear more and more from celebrities, artists and journalists who understand the potential downside of providing online forums for anonymous armchair reviewers to opine about anything they wish.
As a law firm that knows the importance of blogging as part of an effective content marketing strategy, you may have also experienced the drawbacks of providing a comment board on your posts. But you recognize the value your blog presents in generating…
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Emails. Texts. Websites. These days, much of our communication relies on the written word. That’s in addition to the memos, contracts and motions you compose for your law firm.
Written messages have their advantages. You can craft your response on your own time and convey information in a permanent way.
With all the different forums requiring you to type your words instead of speak them, there are many opportunities for typos to sneak into your sentences.
Typos on your firm’s website aren’t…
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Facebook users consume 100 million hours of Facebook videos per day, matched by 500 million hours of Youtube videos watched each day. Does that mean people are watch law firms’ videos?
That depends on the channel and the device.
Look Who’s Watching
For law firm videos, the video click through rate (or play rate) on mobile devices is miniscule compared to desktops and tablets even though YouTube’s traffic is more than 50% mobile. When Custom Legal…