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One of the Most Important SEO Elements Has Been Above the Top of the Page This Entire Time

Every law firm with a website has had a conversation about SEO. About content. About backlinks. About page speed, schema markup, mobile responsiveness, and whatever…

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Content marketing: 4 tips for creating compelling, sharable infographics

Most law firm infographics get published, shared once by the firm’s own accounts, and forgotten. Not because infographics don’t work — they do — but…

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AI Content in Law Firm SEO

100% of Top-Ranking Personal Injury Law Firms Use AI Content. Now What?

We just finished a study analyzing 2,435 law firm ranking appearances across 8 practice areas and 24 U.S. cities to see how AI content is…

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Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines for Lawyers

What lawyers can learn from Google’s latest search quality handbook

Google published an updated version of its Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines in September 2025. The document runs over 170 pages and lays out, in considerable…

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Page Speed and SEO is a Myth

Your Website Is Slow and It’s Not Hurting Your Rankings

You know all of those spammy emails you get about how your website is ranking poorly on Google because of your low PageSpeed and Core…

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Five Things the Most Effective Websites Have in Common

We first published this article in 2013. The data we referenced then came from vSplash’s SMB DigitalScape: 93.3% of small business websites weren’t mobile-compatible. 60%…

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Thank You pages on law firm websites

Your Law Firm’s Thank You Page Is Doing Nothing. Here’s How to Fix That

Someone just filled out a contact form on your law firm’s website. They found you, read enough to feel comfortable, and decided to take the…

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Google AI Overviews Now Show Law Firms in Map

AI Overviews are now displaying law firms on an interactive map, complete with business listings, star ratings, and descriptions pulled from law firm websites. It…

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These Are the Legal Directories That ChatGPT Actually Cares About

Legal directories have historically been synonymous with local SEO and link building. They play an important role in building credible citations for your law firm,…

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Regional Practice Area Page SEO for Law Firms

7 Ways to Enhance Your Local Search Marketing Efforts

Attorney searches almost always start close to home. When someone needs a lawyer, they search with local intent, using phrases like “personal injury lawyer near…

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ChatGPT Might be Pricey and Worth It

Why ChatGPT’s Pricey Ads Might Make Sense for Law Firms

When I first saw reports that OpenAI was testing ad pricing around $60 per thousand impressions, my gut reaction was the same as most lawyers….

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Jason Bland, Custom Legal Marketing Co-Founder

Custom Legal Marketing Turns 21 🤯

This month, as we poured champagne to celebrate another year in business, we were finally able to hand a glass to the ole corporate book……

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How to Create Your Law Firm’s Unique Selling Proposition

Beat the crowd: Tips for rising above the competition in a saturated market

The legal market has never been more crowded. Law schools continue to graduate more students than the market can absorb, and the rise of online…

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Answer Engine Optimization Makes Trust More Valuable than Keywords

Keywords and Google rankings are still important but they’re not the future. And the replacement demands something else: actual, real-world trustworthiness.

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Keep Content Fresh

Keeping Content Fresh is Good for SEO and AEO

Each AI service has its own way of assessing quality, but all LLMs and search engines have one thing in common: they like fresh content.

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Content Writing

Focus on benefits when communicating with prospective clients

Marketers like to talk about positioning, unique selling propositions and differentiation. Differentiate or die! is a common refrain heard among marketing gurus young and old….

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Important questions to ask an SEO agency

Six Questions to Ask An SEO Agency

You must be able to trust your agency will use your investment to help you grow and deliver more calls and cases.

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Good user experience on a lawyer website

Be useful: How to design a website experience that solves real clients’ problems

Attorney websites have progressed significantly over the past decade. Blogs, regularly updated practice area content, video, and interactive tools have replaced the static brochure-style pages…

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