It is important to make the distinction between thinking social and acting social. Just being on a social network is about as useful as just having a website. The key to success is having an active presence on the social networks to market your firm.
In this month's issue of the Bigger Law Firm magazine, they talk about Google Plus and how to utilize Google's new social network to grow your firm. You can pick up an issue at...
Read MoreWe get a lot of calls each week from lawyers that are upset with their current legal marketing company. These calls generally go something like this.
“I can’t take this company that I’m working with any longer. I had them build my website about one year ago and I’ve been paying them month after month to do search engine work and nothing is happening.” The lawyer goes on to explain how they have spent a fortune on the website but...
Read MoreOnline law firm marketing consists of many elements from having a conversion-friendly design to getting traffic from social media and published content. But once you have a visitor on your website, do they know what to do?
Websites need to serve two types of audiences: readers and people wanting to connect with a lawyer right now. You need to have valuable content on your website, but for the visitor who is anxious to contact an attorney, a lead funnel...
Read MoreLast week, Google introduced a new change to their search engine results. By taking pages, images, and news that people in your Plus 1 network liked and items you liked, they modify the search results by placing websites liked by your friends higher.
You may not have remembered signing up for a Plus 1 account but if you have a Gmail account, you probably have activated Plus 1.
Let's use an example to show you how this can improve your...
Read MoreHaving a blog on your website is as mandatory as your phone number and contact information. Blogs allow you to offer your site's visitors concise information related to your area of practice and it keeps your website growing with new pages of content.
Before we go into writing blog entries, let’s first talk about what exactly a blog is.
The word blog is a contraction of “web-log”. In the early days of commercial Internet access, message boards and forums did what...
Read MoreWhen planning your website, search engine optimization, and online legal marketing strategy, determining your practice area is probably going to be a more difficult task than you originally anticipated. Not because you do not know what you do but rather, do not know what to focus on with your website.
Remember, the goal of your website and search engine marketing strategy is to convince Google’s algorithm that your website is the most relevant for your keyphrase or keyphrases. If you...
Read MoreAmong the many challenges that law firms have to deal with is, of course, growth. Lawyers spend millions of dollars on marketing every year in an effort to get new clients. From billboards, to television, radio, and the Internet, law firms are spending money to accomplish one thing – to build a bigger law firm.
Unfortunately, many firms spend their law firm marketing dollars on ad campaigns that look the same as every other attorney's advertisements in their region....
Read MoreWhen developing your law firm's website, a lot of emphasis is put on design, layout, and graphics but the images you use can set a tone for your visitors too. The right tone can improve conversion, while the wrong one can chase visitors away.
Aside from photographs of staff lawyers, your website will probably use stock imagery. Such images are purchased (generally) under a royalty-free license. This means that you pay for the image and may use it indefinitely for...
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In this first episode of SEOLawFirm.com’s Law Firm Marketing Podcast, Sierra Winter goes over different color schemes that best communicate with potential clients in various practice areas. In part I, Sierra covers personal injury, bankruptcy, and divorce branding.
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