Facebook users consume 100 million hours of Facebook videos per day, matched by 500 million hours of Youtube videos watched each day. Does that mean people are watch law firms' videos?
That depends on the channel and the device.
Look Who’s Watching
For law firm videos, the video click through rate (or play rate) on mobile devices is miniscule compared to desktops and tablets even though YouTube's traffic is more than 50% mobile. When Custom Legal...
Webinars are an often underutilized attorney marketing resource. From a purely digital standpoint, webinars are valuable SEO and content marketing tools. According to a Content Marketing Institute Link Building Survey, webinars are one of the top five types of content that are most likely to naturally acquire links to your website. From a client acquisition perspective, webinars can help position your firm as a trusted resource, open the door for future dialogue, and ultimately generate leads...
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Adblocking software has become increasingly more necessary as advertising interferes more and more with the online experience. Ads can interrupt the user’s goal with a blast of noise in an automatic video pitch or sprawl across a web page with a pop-up countdown clock. As a result, Google felt the need to intervene. Whether this is a step in the right direction is up for debate.
On February 15th, Google Chrome was updated to ban obnoxiously impeding ads by default...
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Content marketing is propelling forward into a modernized world of high expectations for law firms: to be unique and trustworthy for clients with a crisp and transparent online presence. As rough as the roadmap to successful marketing may seem, it is not impossible. The secret is in the flow. Here is how your firm can tackle content marketing today:
Create Your Plan of Action
Break it down.
The simplest start to new beginnings in 2018 is to realign your law firm’s goals...
As I write this post, thousands of others, both bot and human, are also typing happily away, helping create the glut of content that will hit the internet in the next seconds, minutes, hours and days.
As of 2016, sites within the WordPress network — those hosted on WordPress.com or that have the Jetpack plugin installed — published an average of 24 blog posts per second. While WordPress is extremely popular, powering roughly one-third of all websites worldwide,...
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The internet is saturated with content. And companies show no signs of slowing production. According to WordPress.com, over 76 million blog posts and 9 million web pages were published in July. And this data is only from sites hosted on WordPress.com. The task of breaking through the noise is only getting more daunting.
With all this content congestion, however, content marketing can still work. It takes effort and persistence, but it is possible to use the power of...
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An online marketing strategy cannot be complete without successful landing pages. But what is a landing page? Are there any common features that make a landing page effective?
The term "landing page" is often used to refer to any page, particularly a website's home page, on which a visitor “lands” after clicking on a link. For the purposes of marketing, a landing page is the page on which a visitor arrives after clicking on an ad. It is usually a...
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You’ve done everything right so far. Your SEO has worked the way it should and now visitors have found your site. Your analytics indicate that you’re receiving heavy traffic, but visitors are only staying on your site for about 30 seconds. They’re scrolling through your homepage, but before long, they’re gone.
While your website may draw visitors in with desirable design elements and a clear call to action, it may still be struggling to keep visitors there long enough to...
It is no secret that content is important to search rankings. And not just any content, quality content.
Quality, however, is a nebulous word. Google is quick to say it wants quality but less eager to define exactly what that means. The term quality may also symbolize different things to different people, in terms of characteristics like length, style, subject matter or even type of content.
On top of that, many people can write quality content. As Rand Fishkin...
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You produce content. Maybe even a lot of it. You want people to see your content. You want users to like it, share it and generally interact with it. There are several ways to measure how a piece of content performs, from a click-through to time on page to a link acquisition. Some of these interactions can be valuable, while others are nice eye candy.
For example, a Facebook post linking to an article may receive...
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