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How Lawyers Can Use Halloween to Get New Business

Think that kids are the only ones benefiting from Halloween? Think again.

While Halloween is not a popularly searched topic for most of the year, beginning September, and blowing up in October, Google is bombarded with Halloween-related search inquiries. Not surprisingly, last week in October, boasts about 100 times more Halloween-related search requests than any other time of the year.

So how are you and your law firm capitalizing on this potential new business bonanza?  If you aren’t already, start incorporating Halloween into your firm’s marketing, public relations, blogging and social media efforts. Use this holiday as an invaluable opportunity to raise your law firm’s Web Presence and see the benefits online, in the media, and in your firm’s expanded reach.

While Halloween is supposed to be good, old-fashioned fun, there are quite a few legal issues tied to the scariest holiday of the year. For example:

  • Getting Festive. While a fun family activity, decorating one’s home for Halloween can also be dangerous. Lawyers can remind homeowners that they face possible liability if a trick or treater falls and hurts themselves on their property.

Permalink to Your Law Firm and Google Page Rank

Your Law Firm and Google Page Rank

While it is absolutely true that people use search engines other than Google, it is also a fact that 95% of individuals use Google to perform an online search. This means that Google is important to you and your law firm. You want your name and your law firm to show up prominently in search results in order to make the best possible impression on your potential client, referral source, or other interested party. This is where your Google Page Rank comes in.

If you’ve spoken with an Internet marketer or done any reading about your law firm’s search engine optimization on your own, you’ve heard about the infamous ‘Google Page Rank.’ So what exactly does this mean? And why do all those random spammers keep leaving comments (that you never approve, obviously) on your WordPress blog? Not surprisingly, the answers are connected. Check out this graph:

If you are interested in building your law firm’s Web Presence and increasing your Google Page Rank through a customized Social Media Campaign, contact the attorneys-turned-legal marketing professionals at WebPresence, Esq.

WebPresence, Esq. is a cutting-edge Web Presence Management company built by attorneys for attorneys. Our team of lawyers will create a powerful Social Media campaign for your law firm, enabling you to attract new business and increasing your firm’s reputation.  Additionally, we will manage your online reputation, ensuring that your carefully-crafted name remains in good stead.  For more information about our services, contact WebPresence, Esq. at www.WebPresenceEsq.com today.

 

 


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8 Tips for Building a Great Law Firm Website

In today’s digital age, when it comes to gaining new clients, your law firm’s website can make or break you. A majority of people begin their search for an attorney online, and many of those individuals received your name along with a few other referrals. It’s crucial that your website makes a great first impression and encourages that person to call you for assistance with their legal trouble.

Unfortunately, most law firms have been slow to join the online era. They have a 5, 10 year old website that they have not updated in years and that just consists of a lot of legal mumbo jumbo splattered across the page. No matter who your target market is (other professionals, the regular Joe), this likely will not cut it.

If you are interested in standing out amongst your legal peers and bringing in new business through your law firm’s online presence, here a 8 tips to consider when building a new website, or reexamining your current one. However, it’s important to keep in mind that website optimization never really stops — it’s an ongoing process.

8 Tips for Building a Great Law Firm Website

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Permalink to Why Providing Useful, Unique Legal Content is Necessary

Why Providing Useful, Unique Legal Content is Necessary

Recently, the web has been abuzz with Google’s algorithm updates. These ever-so-powerful algorithms essentially determine your website’s placement in a Google search and at WebPresence, Esq. we’re happy about the changes. Along with cuddly code names (“Panda” and “Penguin”), these algorithms will be giving more weight to our clients websites, which we fill with useful, informative, unique content, while supposedly penalizing sites who use black hat SEO tactics. In other words, merely filling up a page with key words to improve your site’s ranking will no longer cut it, according to Google.

Google regularly updates its algorithms in order to provide the ultimate user experience. As legal content writers, we wholeheartedly stand behind that ideal. Along with a more accurate user experience, Google’s updates provide our clients with a better chance at client conversion, meaning the potential client sees and visits their website, thereby turning into a bona fide client.

Essentially, regular algorithm updates aim to ensure that the user is getting the most accurate and high quality results for what he or she is searching for. For example, when a potential client types ‘Can I sue the drunk driver that injured me in California?’ into a Google search, instead of law firm websites containing spammy, non-useful information showing up first on the search result list, Google will prioritize your high-quality website that provides useful, current content. That cheer you just heard? Our satisfied clients, raising a toast to WebPresence, Esq.’s premium services.

At WebPresence, Esq. we provide unique, informative, SEO-rich content to our clients. Our approach is not one-size fits-all. Understanding what Google, Bing, AOL, and the other major search engines are searching for, we tailor our content to each of our clients and to the principles of SEO best practices. We write articles that work to increase your website’s search engine rankings, not harm it. And perhaps most importantly, we’re attorneys who understand the Professional Rules of Conduct and the difference between advertising and social networking.

WebPresence, Esq. is a cutting-edge Web Presence Management company built by attorneys for attorneys. Our team of lawyers will create a powerful Social Media campaign for your law firm, enabling you to attract new business and increasing your firm’s reputation.  Additionally, we will manage your online reputation, ensuring that your carefully-crafted name remains in good stead.  For more information about our services, contact WebPresence, Esq. at www.WebPresenceEsq.com today.

 


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Google Plans to Penalize Over-Optimizers

Are you over-optimzing? Probably. Many “legal markerters” promise results to clients, lawyers just like you, with blog posts that are over-linked and ‘over-optimized.’  According to Google, the world’s largest search engine, such behavior will land your law firm’s website in the dugout: Google is working on a search ranking penalty for sites that are “over-optimized” or “overly SEO’ed.”  In other words, if you are paying a marketing or SEO group to buy tons of links on link-building sites or spread your links across non-ranked/unverified blogs, Social Media accounts, and online directories, Google will hold it against you.

Google has been working on this penalty for months and plans to roll it out in the near future. The penalty’s goal is to “level the playing field” and give sites that have great content a better shot at ranking above sites that have content that is not as great but do a better job with SEO.  Make sure that you and/or your legal marketer is contributing relevant, educational, and informational content to your blog — and not only for ethical reasons.

Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, said about over-optimization:

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3 Mistakes Every Law Firm Must Avoid

These days, your web presence is almost as important as the services you provide (almost). Your clients — and potential clients — are accustomed to cool/entertaining/you-fill-in-the-blank websites that also provide useful information about the services or products they are seeking. Why should your law firm’s website be any different? If you want to keep viewers engaged and coming back for more, it shouldn’t.

Here are 3 mistakes you must avoid when building your website:

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