Google Removes Right Hand Sidebar Ads

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GOOGLE NEWS FOR LAWYERS – PPC MARKETING Starting on February 19th, Google began phasing out sidebar ads from their search engine results pages. They will now show one to four ads before the organic search results, and the rest will be pushed to the bottom of the page. SO This only effects Pay Per Click advertisers, because now there is less ad space. No more ads on the right side seems like a waste of space, so who knows what Google is doing here, yet you can bet it has something to do with MOBILE. Google is all Mobile, all the time. The update – which is described as “global and permanent” will only apply to desktop searches, which may affect the traffic you see from desktop devices. According to Search Engine Journal: “High volume and general search terms have been most severely affected by the update so far. Long-tail and niche terms will begin to see their right hand ads disappear in the coming weeks.” This change hasn’t yet rolled out to mobile, so it remains to be seen if/when that will happen and what the results will be… Search Engine Journal

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New Lawyer Site Design: Chicago Tax Lawyers

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WordPress for Lawyers – Site Redesign and Upgrades Sometimes you might want to upgrade the look and theme of your lawyer wordpress site.  We helped a Chicago Tax Attorney update the firms tax site and did a number of things to help improve the overall site.   We had a new logo created, bought new legal images, setup advanced plugins and created a mobile version of site.  We then setup site with top web hosting, increased the sites speed score and made sure the site was as mobile friendly as possible. Chicago Tax Lawyers – WordPress for Lawyers Site Redesign     SOME OF THE OTHER FEATURES OF THIS NEW LEGAL WEB SITE PROJECT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: * Setup of Top of the line Lawyer web Hosting * Created custom logo for site, purchased professional legal images * Setup of Yoast SEO with advanced configuration * Setup of Premium Cache and CDN to improve the SPEED of website * Setup of Premium Security Plugins to lockdown site * Setup of Custom Mobile Site including logo, images, dual menus, icons, performance and Mobile SEO. * Setup of Social Media Campaigns including creation of Twitter, YouTube, Google and Facebook accounts. Visit Tax Lawyers in Chicago micro site and tax blog – Horowitz Law Offices   LAWYER WORDPRESS SITE DESIGN – Lawyer WordPress Web Sites Fill out the form below or call us at 630-393-0460 for a free legal site proposal.

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Why Pinterest Matters in Marketing

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PINTEREST FOR LAWYER MARKETING Why Pinterest Matters to Marketing [Infographic] Did you know that Pinterest is the third most popular social network in the US, behind Facebook and Twitter? That statistic came as a surprise to me. But what isn’t surprising is the rise in brands that are using Pinterest as part of their social and content marketing strategy. While the platform is easy to use and visually appealing, there’s more to using the platform effectively than meets the eye. This infographic details the demographics of the Pinterest audience, the best time to post, and even what post categories work best on which days.

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Lawyer Site Maintenance

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Attorney Website Maintenance Services Does your site need to be managed? Do you have a website that needs someone to show it some attention? We can help you manage and maintain your legal website.  Every single site needs to be managed and if you or someone at the firm doesnt have the time, well odds are your site is going to SUFFER.  Its key to keep the site maintained with fresh content on a regular basis, but also if you have a WordPress or other CMS system in place, you must make sure that you update the wordpress software and plugins, otherwise you are more likely to have your site hacked. We offer the following Lawyer Website Maintenance services: Basic – We will update your sites software when needed.  Setup up-time monitoring to make sure your site is always up. Monitor site for any broken links. Advanced – We will update your sites on regular basis. We will help create new content and update blog on regular basis. We will provide full security and backup services. Content Plus – We will be your blogger and create a constant flow of new and unique content that can be used on your site and blog. We will do the posts, get the images, create the videos and everything else you need to dominate your industry with content.  

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New Lawyer Site Design: Criminal Defense Lawyers

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WordPress for Attorneys – New Site From Scratch Sometimes you might want to add a new site to your legal practice. Sometimes you might have an older site and dont really know what to do with it, because its a general info site that liste like 9 practice areas, with a short snippet of content on each. SO then you decide maybe you want to focus on Criminal law only. We helped a Fort Wayne Criminal Lawyer create a new WordPress site and get into the wordpress site and blog game.  So here we needed to buy a new domain, setup web hosting, create a new wordpress site, get legal graphics, create a new logo and create fresh unique content for the site. Then bring it all together as we did here for the Fort Wayne Criminal Attorneys at the Law Offices of Matt Chapel. Fort Wayne Criminal Defense Lawyers – WordPress for Lawyers Site Design SOME OF THE OTHER FEATURES OF THIS NEW WEB SITE DESIGN PROJECT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: * Setup of Top of the line Hosting for Legal WordPress site * Setup of Premium Security Plugins to lockdown site * Setup of Yoast SEO with advanced configuration * Setup of Premium Cache and CDN to improve the SPEED of website * Setup of Custom Mobile Site including logo, images, dual menus, icons, performance and Mobile SEO. * Setup of Social Media Campaigns including creation of Twitter, YouTube, Google and Facebook accounts. Visit the Criminal Defense Lawyers in Fort Wayne site – http://fortwaynecriminallawyers.com LAWYER WORDPRESS SITE DESIGN Fill out the form below or call us at 630-393-0460 for a free legal site proposal.  

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Mobile Is Bigger for Lawyers

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MOBILE Mobile Mobile for Lawyers Most law firms have mobile sites by now, but actually some still have NO mobile presence and dont even know it.  Google has been stressing mobile more then ever, and it seems like every article is about making sure your site is mobile friendly. So the more mobile you can get the better. Yet start with at least having your site pass the Google mobile friendly test.  Yet there is a lot more your firm can do with mobile as far as creating a mobile app, doing mobile advertising, doing videos for mobile and optimizing different pages specifically for mobile.   NOW is the time to go ALL IN with Mobile. Mobile for Solo Attorneys and Small Law Firms CONTACT US FOR A FREE MOBILE SITE ESTIMATE Call us today at 630-393-0460 or fill out the form below regarding what kind of MOBILE service you need for your law firm.  

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Jetpak Plugin for WordPress

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WordPress Plugins for Lawyers If your a lawyer that has a WordPress site, you know that plugins can sometimes make a big difference. The JetPak plugin is one of these plugins that has a lot of different options that you can play around with.  You dont need all of these, but there are a few that are very useful. Jetpack simplifies managing WordPress sites by giving you visitor stats, security services, speeding up images, and helping you get more traffic.  ** Download Plugin from WordPress ** Traffic Growth & Insights Jetpack tells you how many visits your site gets and helps you get more traffic with tools like Related Posts, Publicize, Enhanced Distribution, and Sharing. Security Jetpack protects your site against brute force attacks and unauthorised logins. We also monitor your site for downtime and keep your plugins updated. Image Performance Jetpack automatically optimizes and speeds up images using the global WordPress.com content delivery network. This saves you hosting costs by reducing bandwidth. EXTRA SIDEBAR WIDGETS YOU CAN USE The Twitter Widget shows your latest tweets within a sidebar on your theme. The Facebook Like Box Widget shows your Facebook Like Box within a sidebar on your theme. The Image Widget lets you easily add images to a sidebar on your theme. The Gravatar Widget allows you to pull in your Gravatar image along with some of your Gravatar profile data. The Gallery Widget provides you with a simple way to display a photo gallery or slideshow in your blog’s sidebar. Requires the Tiled Gallery module. The Display WordPress Posts Widget lets you display up to ten recent posts from another WordPress.com blog, or a self-hosted WordPress site with Jetpack enabled. The Social Media Icons Widget lets you add icons for the most popular social networks to your sidebar or other widget area.

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New Legal Site Design: Chicago Corporate Attorneys

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WordPress for Lawyers – Site Redesign and Upgrades Sometimes you might want to upgrade the look and theme of your lawyer wordpress site.  We helped a Chicago Corporate Lawyer update the firms corporate site and did a number of things to help improve the overall site.   We had a new logo created, bought new legal images, setup advanced plugins and created a mobile version of site. Chicago Corporate Lawyers – WordPress for Lawyers Site Redesign   SOME OF THE OTHER FEATURES OF THIS NEW WEB SITE DESIGN PROJECT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: * Setup of Top of the line Hosting * Setup of Premium Security Plugins to lockdown site * Setup of Yoast SEO with advanced configuration * Setup of Premium Cache and CDN to improve the SPEED of website * Setup of Custom Mobile Site including logo, images, dual menus, icons, performance and Mobile SEO. * Setup of Social Media Campaigns including creation of Twitter, YouTube, Google and Facebook accounts. Visit Chicago Corporate Attorneys – Horowitz Law Offices   LAWYER WORDPRESS SITE DESIGN Fill out the form below or call us at 630-393-0460 for a free legal site proposal. [Contact_Form_Builder id=”12″]  

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Lawyer Plugins: All In One WP Security & Firewall

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WordPress Security Plugins for Lawyers All in one WP Security and Firewall is one of many different plugins that you can use to protect your lawyer site.  This is one of the better ones and its totally free and has a unique setup with a scoring system. So the more you setup, the higher your score. It doesnt seem like any one plugin can totally protect your site, BUT doing certain things can help lessen the chances that your site gets hacked. A COMPREHENSIVE, EASY TO USE, STABLE AND WELL SUPPORTED WORDPRESS SECURITY PLUGIN WordPress itself is a very secure platform. However, it helps to add some extra security and firewall to your site by using a security plugin that enforces a lot of good security practices. The All In One WordPress Security plugin will take your website security to a whole new level. This plugin is designed and written by experts and is easy to use and understand. It reduces security risk by checking for vulnerabilities, and by implementing and enforcing the latest recommended WordPress security practices and techniques. Download at WordPress Below is a list of the security and firewall features offered in this plugin: User Accounts Security Detect if there is a user account which has the default “admin” username and easily change the username to a value of your choice. The plugin will also detect if you have any WordPress user accounts which have identical login and display names. Having account’s where display name is identical to login name is bad security practice because you are making it 50% easier for hackers because they already know the login name. Password strength tool to allow you to create very strong passwords. Stop user enumeration. So users/bots cannot discover user info via author permalink. User Login Security Protect against “Brute Force Login Attack” with the Login Lockdown feature. Users with a certain IP address or range will be locked out of the system for a predetermined amount of time based on the configuration settings and you can also choose to be notified via email whenever somebody gets locked out due to too many login attempts. As the administrator you can view a list of all locked out users which are displayed in an easily readable and navigable table which also allows you to unlock individual or bulk IP addresses at the click of a button. Force logout of all users after a configurable time period Monitor/View failed login attempts which show the user’s IP address, User ID/Username and Date/Time of the failed login attempt Monitor/View the account activity of all user accounts on your system by keeping track of the username, IP address, login date/time, and logout date/time. The All In One WordPress Security plugin doesn’t slow down your site and it is 100% free. Visit the WordPress Security Plugin page for more details.

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Lawyer Security Tips for WordPress

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WORDPRESS SECURITY TIPS – January 2016 –> – Change Default ADMIN Username Security is more important then ever if you are a lawyer and have a WordPress site.  No doubt it seems like there is a constant threat of hackers trying to get into your site. Dont believe me?  Setup the Wordfence Security Plugin and enable the Live Activity Feed and you will see an amazing amount of users or robots usually from other countries trying to access your site.   So in order to keep them out you will need to follow a number of tips starting with these basic two. #1- Remove ADMIN User ASAP and replace with other user… The ‘admin’ username is the first guess the brute-force robot uses to try and gain access to your website because it is the default username when you install WordPress. Most site owners will change the default username during installation, but if you still have this username – remove it immediately. Create a new username, delete the ‘admin’ user, and WordPress will move all existing content to the newly created user. From a security perspective, changing the default “admin” user name is one of the first and smartest things you should do on your site. #2- Set ‘Display name publicly as’ so it does not match username – Change this option in Users > Your Profile or from the Users > All Users dashboards to hide this data from future site crawls. The same brute-force robots will often crawl your site and copy author information. If you’ve set the ‘Display name publicly as’ option to match your username, the robot now has that information and will use it to try and break into your site. When you submit a post or answer a comment, WordPress will usually display your “nickname”. By default the nickname is set to the login (or user) name of your account. From a security perspective, leaving your nickname the same as your user name is bad practice because it gives a hacker at least half of your account’s login credentials. Therefore to further tighten your site’s security you are advised to change your nickname and Display name to be different from your Username. WordPress Security for Lawyers If you have a wordpress site, you must really make sure you protect it from hackers.  Otherwise you risk getting hacked and having malware planted on the site, this is not a good thing. Worst case scenario, Ive seen sites totally ruined because of hackers.  Thats why its key to make sure you have full backups that you can restore, this way if your site is hacked, you can always restore over the damage that was done usually.  Contact us today for more information at 630-393-0460. Why You Need WordPress Security Services #1- To protect your legal website from hackers and malware #2- To make sure your WordPress software and Plugins are updated #3- To make sure your site is backed up on a regular basis #4- To be able to RECOVER From Hackers and any Google Site Warnings about your site  

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