I shared a couple years ago that FindLaw blogs were an embarrassment to the legal profession. The reason being that Findlaw was publishing blogs authored by Findlaw employees that, in my opinion, were nothing more than a regurgitation of news content. The goal being to fill a blog post with keywords that could link to… Continue Reading
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FindLaw blogs an embarrassment to the legal profession
West Publishing, founded in 1872 in St. Paul, Minnesota by John West, has been one of, if not the, most prominent legal publishers in the United States for over a century. West established itself as the nationwide de facto standard used by all federal courts and most state courts for the reporting of legal decisions…. Continue Reading
FindLaw scores low on the ‘Truth-O-Meter’
Last month FindLaw Lawyer Marketing was caught selling links to law firm websites, a violation of Google’s guidelines and a practice considered unethical SEO – search engine optimization. Rather than acknowledge its errors, FindLaw responded that it did not sell links to law firm websites. FindLaw said the story of selling links arose out of… Continue Reading
FindLaw caught selling juiced links : You’re in the movies now boys
The Legal Broadcast Network ( LB Network ) is not LexBlog, but a network founded by Jan Schlichtmann, the nationally renown attorney and advocate for public justice and environmental issues and Mark Wahlstrom, one of the nations leading settlement planning professionals and advocate for plaintiffs rights to representation. Notwithstanding FindLaw’s hope and belief, the FindLaw… Continue Reading
FindLaw Linkgate : Former FindLaw sales rep blows whistle
Things are getting interesting in what’s best called the ‘FindLaw selling links scandal’ or Linkgate that’s been widely discussed across the net – in legal and SEO blog posts, comments on blogs, on Twitter and now reported in the the Wall Street Journal. FindLaw’s been reportedly selling a service to lawyers whereby FindLaw gets high… Continue Reading
FindLaw selling links update : Dow Jones reporting FindLaw misconduct and lawyers questioning what FindLaw sold them
In comments on this blog and throughout the blogosphere FindLaw cronies have been denying misconduct in the FindLaw selling links debacle. When the cronies realize they’re on the short end of the argument, they just fall back on ‘you’re just bloggers, you spread rumors, this is why few bloggers are trusted, there’s no proof…’ Well… Continue Reading
FindLaw selling links story is spreading like wildfire
FindLaw may choose not to respond to the Internet discussion about FindLaw’s recent troubles with the sale of links. But there’s no question that FindLaw’s conduct is one hot topic of discussion. In addition to blog posts and blog comments, including a reporter’s comment asking for current and former FindLaw sale’s reps to contact them,… Continue Reading
Traits you look for in a legal marketing strategic partner
An email from New York this morning to Kevin McKeown, also a lawyer and LexBlog’s VP of Client Development, reminded me what lawyers are looking for in a legal marketing strategic partner. And Kevin is the first to remind each prospective client not to look at LexBlog as a vendor, but as a strategic partner…. Continue Reading
FindLaw SEO misconduct : Suggested course of conduct
There’s little question in my mind that FindLaw’s selling links to law firms in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines was a big mistake. Not only may FindLaw be liable to law firms for the millions of dollars paid by law firms to FindLaw for these spam links, but FindLaw and its parent company, Thomson Reuters,… Continue Reading
FindLaw gaming Google, and possibly scamming lawyer customers?
FindLaw appears to have been caught gaming Google by selling links to lawyer websites and, in the words of one blogger, possibly scamming their lawyer customers. And, as of Friday evening, it appears Google has already taken steps to penalize FindLaw. Though there’s not much coverage yet on the legal blogosphere, FindLaw’s conduct has sure… Continue Reading
Lawyer directories : LinkedIn has looks of winner
Who would have thunk a professional social networking site could overtake a long standing lawyer directory like Martindale-Hubbell? But look at the growth in traffic (unique visitors per month) to LinkedIn, Martindale.com, Martindale’s consumer-small business lawyer directory, lawyers.com, and FindLaw.com (total traffic, not just lawyers.findlaw.com directory) over the last year. LinkedIn is blowing them all… Continue Reading
Will Google offer better search of lawyer directories than lawyer directory websites themselves?
If you watch Google closely, one of the recent changes you’ve see is that when Google displays organizations and directories on the search results pages, it’s allowing a search of the subject website without having to click to the website. Look at the below example for the Super Lawyers lawyer directory. Internet users would not… Continue Reading
FindLaw and LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell lawyer directories – the next casualties of Google
That’s the word from legal marketing pro John Sailer. First it was The Yellow Book, The Real Yellow Pages and all the other phonebook directories.
$2,000 per month for small law firm website?
Just got off the phone with a law firm administrator in a less than 5 person who volunteered they’re paying $2,000 a month for a FindLaw website. Because it wasn’t generating the work expected, she said the’re calling to cancel. It’s not the first firm with a pretty nice looking FindLaw site who’s contacted me… Continue Reading
FindLaw dropped from Times 50 coolest Web sites for ’06
Looks like FindLaw will need to remove the “Times Top 50′ patch from the bottom of their website. FindLaw, included in Times’ 50 coolest Web sites for 2005, is not included in Times’ 50 coolest Web sites for 2006. As Bob Ambrogi says there’s not a legal site on the list. Perhaps an opening for… Continue Reading