We just launched our new YouTube video titled "Video Schema for Lawyers," and it's a must-watch for any law firm that is using videos on its website. Right now, much of your video's search traffic is probably getting routed to YouTube... but you could be getting that traffic directly on your law firm's website. Video schema can help.
Video schema markup is a powerful tool that can significantly improve...Read More
We just launched our latest video on How to Add Person Schema to Your Attorney Bio on YouTube.
Think of Person Schema as a way to tell search engines more about your individual lawyers while also making it more likely that your lawyers image and bio will be featured in search. By adding structured data markup to your bios,...Read More
You might think of entertainment when you hear “event,” but the reality is that a lot of lawyers get many of their clients by hosting seminars and webinars. If you’re one of them, you should know about Event Schema markups.
If you’ve been conducting seminars or webinars, you're well aware of their value. Why not amplify their reach with Google’s help? With Event Schema markup, you can do just that.
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT basically learn from large libraries of content. When told to “generate” it basically writes an output that is an average consensus of all of the similar data that it has digested. Therefore, by design, AI content is average.
Google recently changed their content policies and now allows AI generated content in its index… this is a big policy reversal. For decades, anything but human created content was against their terms. But then they got...
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Today, we're celebrating our newly opened video and podcasting studio!
To make this happen, we acquired a vacant space in our Kearny Street building. The space was conveniently located on the same floor as CLM headquarters making it easy to network the studio with the main office.
The CLM Studio took just over 6 months to complete. We have dual UHD cameras to capture two angles or multiple guests simultaneously. We will be hosting a lot of live events...
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Google has announced the launch of lead form extensions for Search and Video ads. As the name implies, this simply means that a potential client can submit a form directly from the paid advertisement without going to your law firm's website.
Practice areas such as estate planning, special needs planning, bankruptcy, family law and corporate law will probably...
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Lawyers have to produce a lot of content to compete for organic rankings. Content of course is not just text. There are videos, presentations, ebooks, podcasts, blogs, web stories, and the list goes on. Since videos take a lot of time to produce, it's understandable that law firms would want to get the most mileage out of that content.
But some law firms are concerned that publishing text as a blog entry, that matches the audio of a...
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Earlier this year, we talked about the benefits of Google Web Stories and how law firms should be adopting this mobile media format. Before we share some examples, let us do a quick recap.
Think of it as a mobile-optimized presentation with videos, animations and slides. It is like a PowerPoint presentation on your website that users can discover in search.
Web Stories have been used by news media and magazines but...
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While internet speeds used to all but prohibit the use of embedded videos for law firm websites, that is no longer the case. In fact, last year, the average download speed in the United States was an impressive 93.98 Mbps, which is twice the global average of 46.25 Mbps. Given that the majority of Americans have the ability to seamlessly view an embedded video, more and more law firms are including videos on their website....
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Marketing and advertising are key elements to increase the sales and potential profits of a business. Once businesses figure out who their target audiences, they market to them and create advertisements to make people aware of its products or services and entice them to become a consumer. The modern history of advertising and marketing began with newspaper and magazines. Next, television commercials became an innovative way to see what businesses had to offer in creative way. Today,...
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