By Ian M. Bardorf Generally speaking, people who are in business are not inclined to give their company’s strategic assets away to the competition. However, many attorneys and law firms do exactly this and they don’t even realize it! When it comes to online marketing, what many attorneys fail to realize is the actual value […]
Legal Marketing
Legal Search Marketing – Claims of 1st Page Google Rank
By Ian M. Bardorf Many attorneys are looking for effective ways to market their legal services on the Internet. Done properly, Internet marketing is undoubtedly one of the most cost effective and productive ways of growing your firm. However, attorneys suffer from the relentless bombardment of inbound solicitations that claim will change their business, and […]
Question: Why doesn’t my ad show first when I increase my budget?
The days of simply spending more money to buy a top placement in Google’s sponsored ads section (not the natural listings) is long gone. Yet, there still remains a misconception among many that if you simply increase the amount you’re willing to spend on a keyword, you can buy top placement. Not true. Google changed […]
Question: How do I get the best rankings on Google?
Well, you’ve got to love the enthusiasm surrounding this question. I’ll assume your asking about getting great rankings in the organic search listings as opposed to the Sponsored Listings or the local business listings which comes at the top of the search engine page when someone search with a geographic reference, like “Boston, MA divorce […]
Search Marketing Tip – Building links for law firms
If your law firm sponsors an event make sure you ask the host to add a link to your website from the online description of the event. Here’s why. Many times an event coordinator will ask an attorney to speak at an upcoming event on an area of their specialty or focus. In their own […]
Question: Isn’t SEO just adding keywords
Isn’t “optimizing” a website just the task of adding lots of targeted keywords? Although adding appropriate keywords to any web page is a critical step in properly optimizing a site, it is just one task from various interdependent actions and processes required to effectively optimize any site. Perhaps the most important factor regarding the “process” […]
Legal Search Marketing – Internet Marketing for Attorneys
The practice of search marketing has significantly progressed over the past few years and businesses from Fortune 100s to the two attorney law firm in South Boston, are reaping the benefits. However, still most businesses fail to embrace what is arguably the most cost effective means of marketing and advertising their services by continuing to […]
What about Pay for Performance marketing?
In an online world where just about everything can be tracked and measured, why do so many marketers have trouble putting ROI on any sort of online marketing, advertising or lead generation campaign? There was a terrific post by Pat LaPointe on the measurement of Social Media where he adds his comments and insight to […]
Is SEO advertising?
QUESTION: Given the distortions caused by SEO, can the results of Google be trusted? Ah, the age ol question, “Is SEO ultimately advertising?” Given that it is in the best interest of Google, and the other major search engines, to serve the most authentic results in the organic section of the SERPs, (they would lose […]
Connecting with your online audience
Its amazing how many offline campaigns still launch today without any consideration for the online audience. Yes, this was a common occurrence several years ago as traditional marketers just began to acknowledge that the Internet was an influential medium and not going away. But what about now? How do multi-million dollar offline campaigns ignore their […]
What Is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) leverages search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN’s Bing to obtain visibility and highly qualified traffic in the most cost-effective manner. While most web sites reside passively on the Internet, a growing number of businesses (large and small) have been extremely successful at dynamically leveraging their sites to produce meaningful results […]
What Is Search Marketing?
The practice of search marketing has significantly progressed over the past few years and businesses from Fortune 100s to the two attorney law firm in South Boston, are reaping the benefits. However, still most businesses fail to embrace what is arguably the most cost effective means of marketing and advertising their services with the continued […]