Archive for the 'SEO for Law Firms' Category

Legal Help Directory

Shhh, don’t tell anyone but I found a good new legal website directory at http://www.legal-help-directory.com/. Pretty good PR for a new directory and a solid guy (Brent) behind the scenes.
The site is growing, but currently divided between Legal Information, Litigation Support, Practice Areas and Practice Support. Although there doesn’t appear to be [...]

Budgeting Your Time for SEO

For those on the go, I recently found this SEOMoz article on budgeting your time in an SEM campaign.  Contrary to popular opinion, “cold-call” link building is one of the least important ways to spend your time. Instead, think outside the box, create innovative content or a new widget and you’ll see your site’s popularity [...]

Firefox - Take the Upstart for a Spin

I’ve added a new 80×15 icon to the right sidebar, to show support for what I feel is a faster, more versitile browser. If you haven’t already, make sure you visit the Download Firefox page to install the latest version - it’s available for most systems. Firefox 1.5 is the current distribution version.
Firefox in [...]

Checking Your Links Too Often?

Update: see Adam Lasnik’s comment below
I read an interesting post on seoblackhat.com today saying that Adam Lasnik of Google confirmed that their “link:www.mysite.com” query i) isn’t very accurate and ii) is seen as a “spammy” request by Google. In other words, people hammering Google.com with “link:www.mysite.com” are effectively revealing themselves as ~nefariously involved~ with [...]

Building WAP Enabled Legal Websites

I’m pleased to announce CaseDetails.com is now WAP enabled! What’s that mean? Visitors who access the “normal” www.casedetails.com URL via cell phone, Windows CE device, BlackBerry, etc. will be redirected to an XHTML compliant version of the site where past and present posts are available for review.

Now that I’ve got this up and running here, [...]

Non-Traditional, Non-Reciprocal Link Building

Now that Google has caught on to reciprocal linking campaigns and even (supposedly) three-way cross linking campaigns, the importance of non-reciprocal link building has come to the forefront.  I thought I’d jot down a few ways a law firm could build one way, non reciprocal links by exploring non-traditional options. (Note: link building should be [...]