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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Chicago Local SEO Citation Sources

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TOP CITATIONS FOR CHICAGO LOCAL LAWYERS Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City & Los Angeles. With 2.7 million residents, the Windy City is also the most populous city in Illinois and the American Midwest. O’Hare International Airport  is the busiest in the world, and it also has the largest number of U.S. highways. The city is a major hub for finance, commerce, technology, transportation & telecommunications & a place for businesses of all sizes to thrive. Citation Site D.A. Free / Paid / Recip Listing URL chicagotribune.com 95 Free Click here chicagomag.com/marketplace 77 Paid Click here chicagolandchamber.org 56 Paid Click here chicagochinatown.org/chinatown 49 Paid Click here wilmette.com 43 Paid Click here localfirstchicago.org 42 Free Click here albanyparkchamber.org 30 Paid Click here jeffersonpark.net/members.asp 27 Paid Click here chicagocrusader.com 26 Free Click here paseoboricua.org/business-directory 23 Paid Click here   Citations are important for the Google Local Map listings and its key that you not only have a listing, BUT that your NAP (Name, Address and Phone #) are the EXACT Same in all citation sources. This will help get your site better ranked in the local seo results, along with other things but these are pretty key to get.  Lawyers need other legal site citations, but its key to get citations in your local geographic area. Bright Local has published a list of the top citations for each city and I will be testing these out and reporting back how well these worked.  

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Track Your Lawyer Reviews

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Reviews for Lawyers Reviews these days are everywhere and it seems like people expect to see reviews before making a purchase.  Having NO reviews can sometimes look bad, especially if your a bigger law firm.  People expect to see something!  So there are a lot of places for lawyers where reviews come into play, legal specific sites like AVVO are really important and it makes sense to have good reviews if someone finds you on AVVO.  YET more important these days are your reviews at GOOGLE. Google My Business Listing Every law firm has a Google business listing. The first step is making sure its verified with Google by claiming the listing and having Google call your business phone # or send you a postcard at your address.  Either way once you verify your listing, you can then edit your listing and add content, photos and videos. THIS is also the place where clients can leave you a review.  SO if your going to get a review, it would make sense to get it here if possible.   Google will also list your reviews in some cases from other sources such as AVVO, but the Google reviews are what people will see when visiting your Google plus page.   Also the reviews can stand out on your local listing if setup correctly.  This can make a big difference if you have ten 5 star reviews and your the only listing that has the reviews visible within search results. OTHER REVIEW SOURCES – Monitor Your Reviews There are many other sources of reviews including Yelp, Yahoo Local, Superpages and many other possible places that someone could leave a review about your law firm.  It makes sense that you have someone monitor for any possible reviews, both good and bad.   There are a number of services that will let you check your current reviews and then setup alerts for new reviews. GET NEW REVIEWS How do you get new reviews is the big question? YELP says you shouldnt ask for them, while Google seems to be a little more relaxed on this, they still dont want any false reviews.   Sometimes people will try and get fake reviews and I guess it could work, but in the long run you want to focus on getting real reviews from real people. So you have to take action here and make it EASY for your clients to leave a review for you.  There are many ways you can setup a page that will make it an easier process for your client to leave a review.   I have a client handout that I use that can be customized to your law firm that can be sent to your clients or handed out to them.  Its part of the Lawyer Review Campaign service I offer. We can assist your law firm with the following #1- Audit your current firm and any reviews you now have and produce report #2- Setup advanced monitoring software to monitor any reviews you might get #3- Setup system on your site to have clients leave reviews, with instructions how to leave reviews at different review sites. #4- Custom PDF Review document that can be given to your clients with instructions on how to leave reviews #5- LAWYER Monitoring service.  We will show you how your lawyers are coming up in Google searches and how the search listings can be improved by removing negative stuff and moving more positive stuff onto first page of search results. Contact Legal Search Marketing We are located in the heart of the city of Chicago near Wrigley Field.  Contact us for assistance with your law firms website, SEO or AI needs. ☎️ PHONE: ‪(312) 970-1055‬ 📩 EMAIL: legalsearchmarketing@gmail.com  🤖 Live Chat with out AI Chatbot 🔖 Book a 15 Minute Free Call  🆓 Free SEO Site Analysis

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Top Citations for Lawyers

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Local SEO For Lawyers Local Search marketing is becoming even more important these days and getting your law firm to appear in the local search results in Google maps is very key to every online marketing strategy.  One thing you must be aware of are “Citations” of your law firm. WHAT IS A CITATION? A citation is an online reference to yourlaw firm’s name, address and phone number (NAP). Like links to your website, Google uses them when evaluating the online authority of your business. Unlike links though, citations don’t need to be linked to your business’s website in order for you to be credited for them. So, having your NAP listed in plain text is fine. A partial citation is one which includes only part of your NAP – maybe your name and phone number or name and address. This is better than nothing, but not as beneficial as a full citation. A full citation is one which includes your business’s complete NAP. It doesn’t matter how that information is visibly listed (horizontally or vertically), so long as it’s all there. This is an example of a full citation: For a citation to help with your local SEO strategy, it’s important that it exactly matches the NAP on your website and on your Google+ Local page. What format you choose for your citations isn’t important, but picking one format and sticking with it is. You need to be 100% consistent in the name (abbreviations? Ltd?), address (suite number? floor?), and phone number (+312? spaces or no spaces?) used when building citations. For Lawyers there are all kinds of places to get citations including Yelp, Yahoo and many different online yellow page sites. Below are some of the top legal specific places to get citations. Most of them are free and your probably listed BUT the key here is to make sure your listed EXACTLY the same as far as your Firm name, Address and Phone #.  Then also claiming and verifying your listing is always a good idea and usually you can add a bunch of info on your firm, including a link back to your site.   These sites below are listed by Domain Authority (DA) and the higher the #, the better it will be for you to make sure you have a solid listing and a link back to your site if possible. Citation Site D.A. Country Free / Paid Listing URL findlaw.com 92 USA Free Click here nolo.com 87 USA Free Click here lawyers.com 86 USA Paid Click here hg.org 85 ALL Free Click here avvo.com 84 USA Free Click here justia.com 82 USA Free Click here bestlawyers.com 75 ALL Free Click here lawguru.com 72 ALL Free Click here wallethub.com 71 USA Free Click here lawinfo.com 70 USA Paid Click here lawyers.uslegal.com 58 USA Free Click here divorcemag.com 57 USA / CAN Free Click here lawyer.com 54 USA Free Click here legaldocs.com 53 USA Free Click here leadcounsel.org 52 USA Free Click here lawresearch.com 50 USA Paid Click here canadianlawlist.com 50 CAN Free Click here morelaw.com 49 USA Free Click here attorneypages.com 48 USA Paid Click here uslawyersdb.com 45 USA Paid Click here lawlink.com 44 ALL Free Click here statelawyers.com 44 USA Paid Click here riabiz.com 44 USA Free Click here bestattorneyrankings.com 44 ALL Free Click here lawfirms.com 43 USA Free Click here legalhelpmate.com 42 USA Paid Click here findlaw.com 41 ALL Free Click here lawyercentral.com 41 USA Free Click here lawfirmdirectory.org 41 USA Paid Click here lawqa.com 40 USA Free Click here   Local Search Marketing for Attorneys If your law firm needs assistance with LOCAL SEO, contact us today and we will do a FREE Local SEO analysis on your site.  

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Test Your Legal Site to see if it’s Mobile Friendly

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According to Google…….. A page is eligible for the “mobile-friendly” label if it meets the following criteria as detected by Googlebot: Avoids software that is not common on mobile devices, like Flash Uses text that is readable without zooming Sizes content to the screen so users don’t have to scroll horizontally or zoom Places links far enough apart so that the correct one can be easily tapped If you want to make sure that your page meets the mobile-friendly criteria: Check your pages with the Mobile-Friendly Test

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Is Your Site Mobile Friendly in the Eyes of Google?

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GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO HAVE A MOBILE FRIENDLY SITE, DO IT! Google has been preaching mobile for a long time and they want YOU to make sure your site is mobile friendly.   Looks like they are already making a big change here in the mobile search results. They are putting a big obvious tag as you can see below saying MOBILE FRIENDLY, so most people might just skip a site that doesnt have that mobile friendly tag on it.    SO its REALLY important now to have some kind of mobile friendly site. IS YOUR LAWYER SITE MOBILE FRIENDLY? According to Google…….. A page is eligible for the “mobile-friendly” label if it meets the following criteria as detected by Googlebot: Avoids software that is not common on mobile devices, like Flash Uses text that is readable without zooming Sizes content to the screen so users don’t have to scroll horizontally or zoom Places links far enough apart so that the correct one can be easily tapped If you want to make sure that your page meets the mobile-friendly criteria: Check your pages with the Mobile-Friendly Test Many sites today are “responsive” and that means they are mobile friendly and adjust to look good on any device.  YET Most sites are not setup to be responsive, so that means you need to then have another solution to get your site mobile friendly. FROM GOOGLE Blog – 11/18/14 Have you ever tapped on a Google Search result on your mobile phone, only to find yourself looking at a page where the text was too small, the links were tiny, and you had to scroll sideways to see all the content? This usually happens when the website has not been optimized to be viewed on a mobile phone. This can be a frustrating experience for our mobile searchers. Starting today, to make it easier for people to find the information that they’re looking for, we’re adding a “mobile-friendly” label to our mobile search results. This change will be rolling out globally over the next few weeks. A page is eligible for the “mobile-friendly” label if it meets the following criteria as detected by Googlebot: Avoids software that is not common on mobile devices, like Flash Uses text that is readable without zooming Sizes content to the screen so users don’t have to scroll horizontally or zoom Places links far enough apart so that the correct one can be easily tapped If you want to make sure that your page meets the mobile-friendly criteria: Check your pages with the Mobile-Friendly Test Read our updated documentation on our Webmasters Mobile Guide on how to create and improve your mobile site See the Mobile usability report in Google Webmaster Tools, which highlights major mobile usability issues across your entire site, not just one page Check our how-to guide for third-party software like WordPress or Joomla, in order to migrate your website hosted on a CMS (Content Management System) to use a mobile-friendly template The tools and documentation above are currently available in English. They will be available in additional languages within the next few weeks. We see these labels as a first step in helping mobile users to have a better mobile web experience. We are also experimenting with using the mobile-friendly criteria as a ranking signal.

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Getting Dreaded “Your Site Has Malware” Message from Google

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Ive had a number of lawyer clients contact me regarding the Malware message from Google.  Usually its only noticed when someone does a search for the firms name and the site will come up in the search listings BUT have a warning that tells the user that the site MIGHT have Malware and to not proceed.  Thats not good! You could be losing traffic and potential new clients right now and not even know it. Thats why you need to make sure that your site is well protected from hackers who will plant malware on your site if they figure our your login information.  It happens every single day and sometimes you would never even know anything is wrong, until you see that dreaded message. SO HOW DO YOU FIX THIS PROBLEM? The first thing is that you have to fix the malware problem and get it off your server.  Usually if you go into your Google webmaster tools account, they will notify you of this malware and list the URLs of the offending malware.  SO the first thing is to get these files deleted, but you also want to contact your web host right away and inform them of this issue.  Then you want to run a malware scan and see if you can find anything else, then remove it.   Then they will always suggest that you change ALL of your logins associated with this account. Then once you do all of this, you can ask Google to review the issue after you let them know you have fixed it.  Usually it will only take a day or two to get the message removed.    Yet at this point its time to lock down your site and make sure your have top security setup. We can fix this for you If your law firm needs assistance with setting up security on your website, contact us today at 630-393-0460 or fill out free consultation form.    

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