Google My Business has made updates this year that will affect the way people find your law firm and interact with your profile. When users search for a “personal injury lawyer”, “estate planning attorney”, or whatever your practice area(s) may be, you’ll want to know how to appear high on the list, and you’ll want to look good when you do. For that to happen, you need to know what’s new in Google My...
Read MoreApr 22
Picking Memorable Photos for Law Firm Content
Picking good pictures for law firm online content can certainly be a chore, but it does not have to be. Here are a few tips that can help you choose the best photos to enhance your website or blog content.
Perhaps you may feel that it is not worth the time to find a good photo and then post it and decide to just run a blog post without a picture. While that is an option, it is important...
Read MoreJan 11
Developing trustworthiness in a post-truth era
Most people know that false information runs free on the internet. However, revelations about the sheer volume of misinformation, and the cultural influence of fake news specifically, have shocked and outraged many in the months since the U.S. presidential election in November.
What distinguishes fake news from the plethora of speculation and conspiracy theory discussions online is that it sells itself as professional journalism. Fake news tries to make itself look real, as do fake ad hosting sites, when...
Read MoreAug 13
Four common misunderstandings about attorney website design (and how to fix them)
It happens to the best attorneys, designers and marketers. You embark upon creating a website together. You brainstorm, you prototype, you test, and you build what you believe to be a great new product. Then, at some point, you realize that something has gone awry. Online conversions are down, bounce rates are up. Time on site is suffering. A mistake has been made, and it is more than a mere typo — the design is not functioning as intended....
Read MoreFeb 17
Marketing and the Brain – Part 1 of 3
Visual input
How does your brain perceive a logo? How does copywriting play to the brain’s impulses? What role do emotions play in our decision-making?
Understanding the role of the brain’s cognitive biases and tendencies in the marketing process is essential to converting more leads. The way our brains are wired to respond to marketing features is simpler than you may think. In fact, while each mind is unique, we often respond in predictable ways.
In this three-part blog series, we’ll cover...
Read MoreJan 9
Are your pictures memorable? Science has the answer
Researchers at MIT have developed an algorithm that can identify how memorable or forgettable an image will be to humans. The algorithm, also known as MemNet, performs almost as well as a real human at predicting a photograph's memorability. The algorithm was developed by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
How does it work?
People were shown a series of hundreds of photos, some of which were repeated. They were asked to press...
Read MoreSep 16
Authorship Dropped from Google Search Results
Webmaster trends analyst John Mueller announced in an August 28 Google+ post that Google search results will no longer display page authorship, also known as rel=author markup.
Mueller stated that Google tests found that taking authorship away did not reduce traffic to websites or increase clicks on ads.
Regarding the display of authorship information, Mueller wrote, “Unfortunately, we’ve also observed that this information isn’t as useful to our users as we’d hoped, and...
Read MoreAug 11
Google Author Removes Your Picture, Retains Author Credit
Those photos of you and your staff that once displayed next to your search engine listings has been removed. Google has removed everyone’s pictures with the author still retaining credit for their work, although some author photos may still appear on Google+ based on relevancy and level of interaction with others.
This move caught many lawyers by surprise as no one foresaw Google completely removing pictures from their Google Authorship program....
Read MoreMar 22
Twitter releases study showing what tweets are most successful
A new study from Twitter reveals what factors cause some tweets to be more successful than others. The research confirms what third-party analysis and user observation have long demonstrated: tweets that contain images prompt the most engagement. Posts with video and links also receive more attention.
Twitter analyzed over 2 million tweets sent from accounts within the United States. Researchers looked for tweets containing photos, #hashtags, links, videos and a number or a digit — such as...
Read MoreJun 13
Five tips for getting the most engagement out of your Pinterest pictures
After a year of gathering data about how people interact with images on Pinterest, the team at Curalate believes they can predict whether or not your pictures will get noticed. Curate is a social media image analytics company that counsels businesses on how to optimize pictures for maximum engagement on Pinterest and Instagram. They have been steadily amassing a database of millions of images, which includes physical details about the picture - like colors, textures, aspect ratio and saturation...
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