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Can Lawyers Have Wikipedia Pages?

While anyone can edit Wikipedia and any person can have a page, most people do not qualify to have a Wikipedia page. You must be “notable” to have a Wikipedia page. While you and I both probably believe that we’re very notable people, Wikipedia has a different opinion. Over on Wikipedia, notability (of people) is defined as someone or their

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Do Press Releases for Law Firms Help or Hurt SEO?

Generally speaking, backlinks from press releases have no SEO value and do not help law firms. However, if there is actual newsworthy content in the press release which generates real media coverage, press releases are effective for both reputation building and SEO. When Press Releases are Not a Linkbuilding Strategy: Some SEO agencies issue press releases as a way to

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Law Firms Receiving Image Copyright Extortion Emails

We have seen an uptick in 2021 and 2022 from Copyright Trolls seeking money for images posted on law firm’s blogs. This article explains what is happening and offers up your options. The Initial Contact and Demand for Payment It’s been happening to bloggers for years and now a law firm and some other companies are going after attorneys for

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Lawyers Need 5 Google Reviews to Run Google LSA as of June 30 2022

On June 17, 2022, Google Local Services Ads (LSA) emailed LSA advertisers an extremely confusing email which stated they will need a minimum of 5 reviews to run LSAs. Within minutes, clients were emailing us wanting to know if they needed 5 LSA reviews or not. If you weren’t aware, users may leave reviews directly to your LSA page (not

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Google Reviews Not Displaying for Law Firms in 2022

Beginning around November 2021, Google turned up the dials on their review spam detection algorithm. Most attorneys have noticed this in 2022 and this is why their Google user reviews are not displaying. The Google Spam Detection Algorithm: Every day I see law firm’s profiles loaded up with fake reviews. And at least once a week a client asks me

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Featured Snippets for Law Firms

Law Firms may display on a Google Search Engine Result Page (SERP) as a Featured Snippet result, above the other organic results. Here’s an example of a Featured Snippet in the wild: There is a tremendous amount of information to know about Featured Snippets. Prior to focusing exclusively on attorney SEO, I have helped thousands of various types of web

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Car Crash Detection System App Spam

Not a day goes by without myself or a client receiving a ridiculous, unsolicited, unwanted email about an app conveniently for sale called something like the Automatic Crash Detection System or Car Crash Detection System, or…. whatever. The sender of this junk mail claims that the app is the “Best Lead Conversion Tool” on the market according to the “Legal

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