Any law firm that is putting a lot of effort into their search engine marketing knows how frustrating it can be to see their spammy competitors rank above them in Google Maps. After investing in your website, getting client reviews and cultivating a strong reputation in Google, your listing could get taken over by someone titling their listing “Smith & Smith – Los Angeles Personal Injury Lawyer.”
While there are multiple types of spam from unqualified addresses to multiple listings,…
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You’ve done everything right so far. Your SEO has worked the way it should and now visitors have found your site. Your analytics indicate that you’re receiving heavy traffic, but visitors are only staying on your site for about 30 seconds. They’re scrolling through your homepage, but before long, they’re gone.
While your website may draw visitors in with desirable design elements and a clear call to action, it may still be struggling to keep visitors there long enough to…
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…
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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…
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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…
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Demands on lawyers’ time were great enough before the onslaught of online marketing. Now, these demands can seem overpowering. Blogging? Check. Webinars? Check. Video production? Check. Content production? Check. Social media posting? Check. Podcast? Check. What was that other thing you were supposed to be doing? Oh yes, being an attorney. That was it.
As important as marketing and business development are, being a good attorney comes first. Always. Tending to client needs comes first. Without good client service, marketing,…
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Poor PowerPoint gets a bad rap. The software is blamed for countless hours spent enduring boring presentations. It is blamed for the multitude of bad slide designs released into the world. It has become almost synonymous with the idea of something unwanted — for both creators and viewers of presentations.
But hope does exist. PowerPoint is just a tool, after all. It can be used to create well-designed, compelling presentations. If you agree to set the bullet points and…
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Google any variation of the phrase “the desktop is dead,” and you will be presented with millions of results — some of them published this year, some with publish dates as old as 2000. Clearly, the desktop has been dying for a long time.
In the face of such dire predictions, the rush to focus all marketing on mobile is understandable. Mobile is hot. Mobile searches continue to increase. Voice search is becoming more popular. All of these phenomenon…
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Keyword research has long been fundamental to achieving SEO goals. In order to drive traffic to your site by achieving good organic search placement, you need to identify words and phrases that are relevant to your practice, that people are searching for, that are not too highly competitive and that convert at a reasonable rate.
Keyword research used to be easy in part because keyword stuffing used to work. Now, however, Google actively punishes content that attempts to rank…
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Marketing is a process. Each piece, from social media to online marketing to TV ads to networking, has many moving parts. Some must be carefully coordinated to function as an integrated campaign. Others, you can work on individually as time permits. While the scope of all marketing activities combined can be considerable, there are things you can do in an hour or two that will advance your business development goals.
Here are ten valuable marketing actions you can take, even…
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