With the newest update to the WordPress content management system, your law firm site based in WordPress will run even better! The new features help the quickness of the website and the ease of use. You will find a new sleeker backend look, with speed in mind. After all, adding content, and getting on with your day is what and how WordPress is so effective in the first place. For a full overview, visit WordPress.org.

The new drag and drop media editor is a major improvement from the previous one. This allows you to basically “drag and drop” media inside your posts/pages with ease! Rather then having to pick your media, it will allow you to just upload anything at once.

View the full feature list here.

Just wanted to update all to the newest updates with the CMS we all love to use.

Do You Have a Law Firm Website Without WordPress?

Contact us today to help integrate your current website into the WordPress platform. This will help you add content on the fly, and you will be able to edit your website, no webmaster needed! Give us a call today to discuss your options with our free website review. 727-808-9723.

If you law firm is having a hard time ranking in Google Places, we are here to help! We have found what works in terms of what reviews, how many images, and what other Google Places factors go into what makes up its ranking. Watch the quick video below to find out more about what we do, and what we can do for your firm.

Why A Personal Injury Lawyer Needs To Rank In Google Places

When you look at your competition, you know the big names in your area. In order to compete with their marketing dollars, a well placed Google Places listing can help you raise above them. Personal injury attorneys need the upper hand, being either a big or small firm.

Personal Injury Lawyer That Needs Help For Google Places?

Want to get started today? Give us a call at 727-808-9723 to claim a free consultation of your Google Places listing. Yes, a free review of your listings, what we see your competition is doing, and suggestions on what we can do to improve your Google Places Ranking. Or simply just fill out the form below.
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In a featured WordPress post, I mentioned that having a WordPress based website is as awesome as it gets! WPSubscribers is one of the best plugins I have seen in a while.

Last month, I’ve a chance of using a brand new WordPress plugin that could be called as a “must-have” tool for any Internet Marketer today.
This plugin, in other words, has all great features for you to dominate your mailing list building – a most important part of all online business companies.

The plugin I’ve mentioned here is WPSubscribers, an all-in-one solution to boost up your list. You will be amazed at this plugin features:

- You can add many opt-in forms in anywhere as you want, including lightbox pop-up, footer-bat, sidebar, post content, comment section or even in user registration form.
- 9 catchy design pop-ups plus 8 colors each.
- An intelligent plugin that you can customize any aspect, put any content in opt-in form, configure display time, location…and much, much more.
Yes, this is a trully “high-class” WordPress plugin in both flexibility and quality that you don’t want to miss, especially when you are 100% protected by WPSubscribers’ 60 days money back guarantee. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s get a copy of this awesome software right-now!

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A potential customer comes to your law firm website, sees what you have to offer, looks around.. isn’t impressed with the quality of the site, or the lack of. This happens more then you think. The concious of your potential client comes into play when they pick up the phone. Do they think you are old fashion, not up to date on all the current legal laws and trends? Yeah, they do.

In this post, I am going to be reviewing law firm websites and how the effects of modern design can take your website to a whole new level. Law Firm Website Design is crucial in converting your traffic into clients, and then making them refer people to you. Let’s start by defining the design of a site.

Website Design:

This is a crucial part of conversion. Have a dated looking website with no modern graphics, pictures , or images and you can get lost or forgotten. Simple and modern is the leading trend in law firm website design and will continue to be in 2012. Have clean colors, design, and flow to ensure that your possible client can see how well your law firm is put together, and how well your services are. Believe it or not, most will either choose you based on the web design (SEO is a must but another topic).

Playing close attention to the flow of your website is crucial for landing the right leads for your practice. Have the BIG YELLOW SIGN that tells them what to do. This can go a long way in the conversion department.

Need Help With Your Law Firm Website Design?

Give us a call at 727-808-9723 to discuss your current website, and see if we can improve upon it. The consultation is free.

When driving to the office today, I was in front of a mom and daughter. They were both talking to once another, and it seemed like they were having a serious discussion. They both had serious faces on and were talking with their hands, which usually means that someone is trying to state a point. The mom had always what it seemed like had a rebuttal about what the daughter had said, and it fascinated me. I have been with some lawyers that use this same type of method with their clients. Are your clients like your kids? I would hope not to think so!

What the Heck is Legal Business Ethic?

The main point I am getting across to you is that you want to treat your clients like your kids in a way, but not to discredit their statements. Listen, then react. Your experience always trumps their opinions in the end, and you already have a set goal in how you want to take the case. You know all the questions they are going to ask, as do you with your kids. Clients come to you for guidance, not to be told what to do. In many cases the client will seem more aware of how you are, and if they will be able to handle you as their lawyer.

Legal Business Ethic comes into play everyday. Use it to your advantage, and be the right lawyer for your client to fall back on.

Educate with Legal Business Ethic – Don’t Abuse

Have the position of authority, help them through their struggle! You will earn referrals through this method. People will respect that you took the time, and they will pay you back with word of mouth.

Step one, install the SEOpressor plugin onto your wordpress and activate it. No need to change the settings that come by default.
See video below if you need some help with this. Instead of searching for SEOpressor press the upload button as it won’t be on wordpress’s free plug in library and then just follow the screen instructions.

Okay now that that is done, start a new post or page and name it something with the “keyword phrase” you want to rank for.
For this guide my keyword will be “spartacus gods of the arena episode 3”
I will just copy some text from some random site that has a well written article on the subject (normally I would hire someone to write me an article).

Now you can see what is missing to make your post/page well optimized for search engines. Look in the box to the right (SEOpressor).
Let start by doing all the H1,H2,H3.

We do this by typing in the keyword phrase and then high-lightening it with the mouse and pressing the H1, H2 or H3 button from the wordpress menu.

Next step is to add the keyword phrase you want to rank for in the format of: underline, bold, italics (in any order). Just highlight the keyword phrase and press the format you want to change the phrase into.

Next step is internal linking (which I highly recommend you do, as it will help the crawlers find all your pages and give you even better SEO score).
And add an image with alt text.
You can use any image from any website, just copy it and post in you post/page and name it with your keyword phrase.

Your all good now and ready to go, but for you super achievers you can go one step extra.

This part is very simple. Its just adding tags which you can see in the pic, all you have to do is add a description for the search engines and some meta tags.

There is an excellent FREE plug in for this called all in one SEO package (just do a search for it like in the youtube video) and install it.
After installing it you will need to configure it, its so simple I won’t go into details here. Just read what instructions on the config page. (If you still have questions about this just ask in the thread).

When done configuring go back to the post/page you were working on and add the details of that page in the fields pointed out.

In a recent blog post on Google’s Official blog, they reveal how to rank in Bing, as conducted by their own studies of the search engine. Rank in Bing Here! This comes at now surprise that Google would do its own tests on how the other search engines operate.

Seems like Google wants you to know what Bing is doing. The search engine debates go on! Click the above link to read the complete article. Just a quick note that I thought you as my readers would be wanting to know about!

I can across a great post to where you can make your WordPress Law Firm Website blog a winning success in terms of SEO and interaction within your target audience. This will help any new law firm website blog or exisiting site with some key seo plugins and other suggestions.

WordPress installed and ready to go within your hosting provider

Unique theme installed (not the WordPress default theme)
In WP Settings —> General make these changes: Site Title = Main KW, Site Description = Description including main KW. Email should be youremail@email.com. Timezone = YourTimezone.
In Posts —> Categories, change the default “Uncategorized” category to the main KW phrase. Then do a Wonder Wheel search and find the other categories to add.
In WP Settings —> Permalinks change it to Custom Structure, use /%category%/%postname%/
In WP Settings —> Discussion change it so an admin must always approve a comment and that it will never email me. Do not allow pingbacks & trackbacks.
Remove all default Blogroll links from Dashboard
Google Analytics installed & configured w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…for-wordpress/
Mobile version enabled & configured w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/
Multiple languages enabled & configured w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-translator/
Akismet installed & activated (key is XXXXXX)
All In One SEO Pack installed & configured w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…-one-seo-pack/
Caching installed / enabled w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
Captcha for comments enabled w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…for-wordpress/
Related posts displaying at the bottom of individual post pages w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…-posts-plugin/
Facebook “Like” button installed
Archives page built ( linked to in sidebar w/ Sitemap ) using http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…ives-reloaded/
Post Plugin Library installed @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…lugin-library/ (Does nothing by itself, it’s used for Popular Posts & Random Posts plugins)
Popular Posts plugin installed w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…-posts-plugin/ . Use sidebar widget to show 5-10 popular posts.
Random Posts plugin installed w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…-posts-plugin/ – use same settings as Popular Posts Plugin. Install sidebar widget to show 5-10 Random Posts.
Psychic Search plugin installed & activated from: http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/ps/
Install SEO Booster Lite: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-booster-lite/ – add SEO Bootster widget to the sidebar, title it something like, “Recently Searched”
Install & activate SEO friendly images @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/ – in it’s setting, check both “Override” boxes to override WP defaults
Install & activate SEO Smart Links @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…tomatic-links/
Install & activate To Title Case: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/to-title-case/
User sitemap built w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sitemap-generator/ . Link to the sitemap at the bottom of the sidebar.
Google XML Sitemap installed, configured, built w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…map-generator/
URL & XML Sitemap added to my Google Webmaster Tools account

These helpful plugins and tips will allow your WordPress Law Firm Website breathe a bit better! Look for more WordPress Law Firm Website tips and tricks from us, as we believe that WordPress is the best solution for a small to large law firm website for all!

You’ve Gotta Have Goals

The key to any marketing effort is having identified goals. This is no truer than when it comes to marketing your law firm through a website. So ask yourself, what are your goals for your website? Here are just a few examples:

Getting Your Feet Wet

Some law firms just want what I describe as “an online business card”. Their website goal is to have something to show people who ask them about their website. They don’t care whether or not their site will get visitors, leads, or generate new clients. They just want see their law firm’s name in lights.

Become A Blawg Superstar

Some lawyers recognize that merely having an online business card isn’t enough. They want to be the next great blog author. They want a readership. Perhaps they want to generate advertising revenue. They understand some basics about law firm internet marketing, but aren’t really ready to completely commit to a full-scale online marketing campaign. Typically, they’re less excited about practicing law than they are about writing about it.

Grow Your Practice

Then there’s everybody’s favorite, getting new business from the internet. Many law firms are learning that the internet can be an excellent source of new clients and new sources of referrals. They need comprehensive web marketing services. These typically include a website and blog, contact form integration, link building, and other features designed not only to help the website get found online, but to turn more traffic into leads and clients.

These are only a fraction of the different goals that a website can be used to achieve. The key is to identify these goals beforehand. Your goals for your website can take you in completely different directions and change your prioritization of time investment, monetary investment, and overall implementation. That is why it is critical to establishing these goals before diving into an expensive and time consuming law firm website solution.

What is a backlink?

I am sure when it comes to gaining traffic to your law firm website, you have heard of backlinks. Backlinks ARE CRUCIAL to your organic success in the search engines. Law firms that do not regulatory update their websites are probably using a backlink campaign to help boost their rankings in the search engines.

Any url for a site posted anywhere on the internet is a backlink for that site. If rawr.com puts a link to poof.com on their site, poof.com just got another backlink. But the details are quite a bit more complicated than just that.

Backlinks aren’t everything. But they are said to be the majority deciding factor in your search engine placement. Sites with a lot of backlinks are seen by Google as more important than sites with less backlinks. Some people spend hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars trying to get their links on other popular sites, link campaigns, link exchanges. But is it really worth it? Apparently so, because your search engine traffic can increase exponentially from strong and relevant backlinks.

All backlinks are not created equal. Backlinks on a less popular site count for less. Backlinks on a site whose keywords have nothing to do with yours, or is otherwise not similar in anyway to yours, count for much less. But backlinks that are either on a popular site, or a site similar to yours in content, is very powerful. If you put both together, its even more powerful. The Google spider is smart, it can tell 99.9% of the time if a site is similar to another, or not, by just looking at its content, so you really should focus on building relevant backlinks, or so it is widely believed. Google is very secretive about the actual formulas surrounding many aspects of their search engine, so although it is widely believed, its almost certain some facts are wrong or missing. Nontheless, it seems those who heed them succeed more than those who don’t.

If you don’t already know about Pagerank, you should read up on it elsewhere, or at my blog. Essentially pagerank is a rank that Google gives sites based on their own criteria, mostly popularity. Pagerank, abbreviated PR, runs from 1 to 10. 1 holds the least value, 10 holds the most. Google is PR 10, a newly started blog is actually rank 0. A backlink on a site with a higher pagerank counts for more than on those of lesser pageranks. A backlink on a site with similar content counts for more than on those of dissimilar content. There is more to it than that but this is just a basic guide. Now you know what backlinks are, and why they are so important. Your welcome! And good luck!