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A question I commonly hear during during the sales process is: What if we have your firm do the SEO and marketing, but we use another firm to design...
Continue ReadingA question I commonly hear during during the sales process is: What if we have your firm do the SEO and marketing, but we use another firm to design...
Continue ReadingOnline press releases were, in the recent past, a popular tactic that law firm SEO’s used for building links fast. And let me tell you, it worked! However, since...
Continue ReadingWhat Are Legal Blogs? How Important Are Legal Blogs Today? As everything around us becomes more digitized, the way that consumers treat online material has changed, too. Prior to...
Continue ReadingPerhaps you’ve heard of the illustrious Super Lawyers, a ratings and legal promotion system that provides consumers and fellow professionals with data on outstanding lawyers. Only those who exhibit...
Continue ReadingLawyers.com ranks well for many of our client’s target keywords, so naturally we wanted to understand its efficacy as a barnacle SEO site. Below, we’ve broken down the results...
Continue ReadingUnderstanding the Best Practices for Multiple Location SEO Pre-2012, businesses realized that they could launch a website on a domain name containing the keywords they wanted to rank for,...
Continue ReadingA Comprehensive List of Best Briefcases for Improving Lawyers’ Caseload Efficiency, Professionalism, and Personal Style Being a lawyer is all about living in the details. Of course, there’s no...
Continue ReadingI’m convinced that family law attorneys have one of the toughest jobs out there. The emotional tax that comes with handling serious issues like divorce and child custody day-in-day-out...
Continue ReadingLawyers are busy people. Between meeting with clients, appearing in court, handling paperwork, and plenty of other day-to-day responsibilities, finding the time to sit down and write a fresh...
Continue ReadingAn In Depth Look At The Best Attorney Credit Card Processing Services On The Market Today As a law firm (whether small or large) in today’s market, there’re a...
Continue Reading6 Things to Look for When Hiring a Paralegal (Especially if You’re Hanging Your Own Shingle) Law practices rise and fall on the strength of their paralegals. Whenever smaller...
Continue ReadingHow to Cure Your Support Staff Blues & Get the Firm’s Business Back on Track Paralegals are the lifeblood of any law firm. Attorneys depend on them for anything...
Continue ReadingHow to Keep Calm and Leverage Your Experience to Land a Better Career You aren’t the first to pass this way. Lawyers have been hired and fired over and...
Continue ReadingHow to Find the Right Client Portal (and Why You Want One in the First Place) It took a while, but email ultimately revolutionized the way attorneys practice law,...
Continue Reading“Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of things.” It’s sage advice… never mind that it comes from Kermit the Frog. Loyal as you...
Continue ReadingBuilding your online presence is a critical part of advertising for your law firm. Online advertising has the potential to bring in a large number of clients, particularly since...
Continue ReadingRecently, Google quietly made a change in organic search results with the additional inclusion of more “people also search for” boxes. This new addition appears in search results when...
Continue ReadingTrue or false: newer, younger lawyers have an easier time with technology than veteran attorneys with decades under their belts? “True” is the easy answer, but it might not...
Continue ReadingIt’s one of the most frequently searched queries by attorneys in the United States: what is the Super Lawyers award, does anyone care about it, and does the designation...
Continue Reading2017 has been the year of changes for Local SEO’s. There has been more product modifications and major additions (upgrades?) than I can remember happening in a single year....
Continue ReadingAs a law firm marketing agency, we write our blog articles primarily with lawyers in mind. Today, we address a topic that you might expect attorneys to already know...
Continue ReadingThe PPC Problem and Juris Digital’s Approach Pay-Per-Click all comes down to how much you pay per click — and whether it’s getting you what you want. At Juris...
Continue ReadingA Review of Justia’s Web Design and Digital Marketing Services If you’re in the market for digital marketing services for your law firm, it’s quite possible that you’ve come...
Continue ReadingSo you’re ready to start your own law firm? Congratulations! This is the beginning of many a success story in the United States. Yours might be next. So you’re ready...
Continue ReadingWondering whether it’s time to fire your current SEO provider? Here we’ll look at five things to look for which may indicate that a change is in your best...
Continue ReadingWondering how long SEO will take to show results? The broad answer – which doesn’t apply in every circumstance, and should be taken with a grain of salt –...
Continue ReadingI think most designers and business owners out there would agree that a logo is the most important part of any brand. Logos shouldn’t be difficult, hard to understand,...
Continue ReadingThere is no denying that Avvo is a huge website with massive visibility in Google and on TV. In fact, according to a recent SEM rush report I conducted,...
Continue ReadingYouTube and Attorneys are a match made in heaven. Years ago, you had to be lucky enough to catch a crazy attorney ads on TV. YouTube changed that. Now...
Continue ReadingWondering whether your website is properly optimized for mobile devices? We have several clients whose mobile traffic constitutes over 65% of their total website traffic. Needless to say, if...
Continue ReadingBacklinks continue to be the primary driver of high search engine rankings. Why? Because backlinks are normally very difficult to get, and a site that does get them is...
Continue ReadingVideo Transcription Hi I’m Casey Meraz with Juris Digital and today we’re going to be talking about how to get more reviews for your law firm. Getting Reviews on...
Continue ReadingIs it your ultimate goal to rank high in Google for search queries containing [your practice area + your city/state]? Of course it is! And I sincerely hope you’ve...
Continue ReadingAre you in the process of researching legal marketing agencies? If so, you know that it can be difficult to prioritize the qualities to look for in the agencies...
Continue ReadingEffective legal marketing starts with strategy. A strong foundation provides a platform from which you can build and manage campaigns. Creating client personas is an important part of the...
Continue ReadingHave you ever wondered which of your digital marketing efforts are actually producing leads, and which aren’t? To make sure that your law firm spends it’s digital marketing dollars...
Continue ReadingWill Live Chat Help or Hurt Your Marketing Efforts? Navigating legal marketing is like digging for gold in a minefield. There are a multitude of options and it seems...
Continue ReadingIn an increasingly competitive market, it’s worth considering how your law firm can differentiate itself from the competition online. One effective way to accomplish this differentiation is to proactively...
Continue ReadingIf you spend too much time on Google like I do you may have noticed a small addition to the Google My Business reviews. Earlier this month they quietly...
Continue ReadingLocal search results have seen a lot of changes recently with the most significant being the addition of the local finder and then having paid ads in the local...
Continue ReadingOver the past 10 years in digital marketing I have met very few lawyers who know what remarketing is and even less that engage in it. This is a...
Continue ReadingRecently I was having a discussion with a personal injury attorney where he asked me what I thought was the most important thing a client looks for when hiring...
Continue ReadingIn 2016, Darren Shaw from Whitespark presented his results from an interesting citation study. In his study Darren wanted to find out what actually happens when you submit your...
Continue ReadingThis post was originally published on Avvo’s Lawyernomics blog. One of several awesome things about the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project is that its name is literal. This is a...
Continue ReadingIt’s crazy to say in the era of [NOT PROVIDED], but Google is giving me really useful keyword data lately. This post outlines how I’ve used keyword data from...
Continue ReadingDoes Direct Mail Marketing Still Work For Law Firms? Recently I was at a marketing and management conference for personal injury firms. During this conference many law firms will...
Continue ReadingIf you haven’t been using Google alerts you’re behind the curve and it’s time to catch up! Don’t worry though if you haven’t been using this handy free tool...
Continue ReadingPromoting your website online isn’t just about organic traffic. In fact there are hundreds of other ways to generate leads depending on your practice area and location. In this...
Continue ReadingYelp. Whether you love them or hate them you’ve at least heard of them, and you’ve likely used their website or app to find a good sushi joint in...
Continue ReadingThe fact that the United States incarcerates more of it’s citizens than any other NATO nation is no secret. This study from Attorney Andrew Flusche looks at the incarceration...
Continue ReadingWe spend a lot of time thinking about how to build links and citations that will really move the needle for our clients, both in terms of keyword rankings...
Continue ReadingGrowing your law firm is one of the hardest jobs you have whether your law firm is big or small. Without proper processes and procedures geared towards actively seeking out...
Continue ReadingIs your online marketing strategy actually in line with your law firm’s goals? If one of your online marketing goals is to get more clients and sign more cases...
Continue ReadingNOTE: This technique will only work if the Analytics account in question is still active, or has been deleted for less than 30 days. One of the biggest frustrations...
Continue ReadingGoogle shocked the world last week when they mixed up how local results are displayed in search results. Local queries that used to return result pages containing up to...
Continue ReadingWhen potential clients are searching for an attorney they typically get a mix of local law firm results as well as attorney directories such as Lawyers.com or Martindale.com. Although...
Continue ReadingIf you are considering making significant changes to your website, there are essentially two methods you can use: 1. Make completely random changes based on what you think is...
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