Free Lawyer Directory

Are you searching for a free lawyer directory to help increase your website exposure? At TargetLaw, we provide just more than a free lawyer directory, we provide a marketing tool that can bring your firm business and enhance your current and future web presence for free. TargetLaw consists of over 50,000 URL’s in one of the largest lawyer search engines in the marketplace. In addition, lawyers can now submit their lawyer profiles for free and automatically generate location and practice area traffic through TargetLaw’s search engine optimized profiles.

TargetLaw has helped thousands of attorneys at no cost generate leads to their law firm. Because TargetLaw emphasis white hat search engine techniques you will have the ability to generate great incoming links to your website while having the ability of getting your profiles and legal articles found on the major search engines. If you are searching for a free lawyer directory that will help you enhance your firm through the Internet, begin by adding a profile and article today.

Some of the benefits:

• Targeted title tag links through article submissions
• Unlimited article submissions (Articles follow your profile)
• Link from your profile to your home page (Follow-Links)
• Ability to link your twitter account
• Ability to link your most recent blog posts
• TargetLaw is one of the best lawyer directories to help generate organic traffic to your website!

How to Leverage Targetlaw to Bring More Traffic to a Firm’s Website

We get asked all the time by attorneys, “I have this great website, but there are no visitors. What can I do?”

There are far too numerous answers to this question to be outlined in this post, but we will give some insight on how to leverage lawyer directories such as Targetlaw, to bring more traffic to your existing website and hopefully more qualified prospective clients.

To oversimplify, there are two important factors to search engine optimization (SEO). Content and incoming links. There is a billion dollar industry of SEO experts that will advise law firms to adopt some sort of strategy to create fresh content on a website and to build relevant incoming links to the firms website.

How does Targetlaw allow firms to take advantage of building content and create incoming links? There are few different Targetlaw features that aid with these strategies.

1. The Targetlaw attorney profile content. An attorney’s profile within Targetlaw does not have a limit on the amount of content a lawyer can type in relevant to their experience, location, practice areas, credentials, accolades etc. When creating a Targetlaw profile, we recommend that at least 250 words be typed. However, don’t use filler words and irrelevant content. Remember, a potential client may read what an attorney writes. So why 250 words or more? It is simple mathematics. The more relevant words describing a particular topic, the more likely a search engine like Google or Bing will reward that content and have it show up highly in search results.

2. Website listing. As simple as it may sound, attorneys should make sure they type in the firm website into the appropriate field when creating their Targetlaw profile. Targetlaw is a legal specific website, so an incoming link from Targetlaw is regarded highly by the search engines. In addition, unlike many other attorney directories, Targetlaw does not incorporate a “no follow” tag to the firm’s website listing. In layman’s terms, a “no follow” tag tells Google’s spiders not to leave the originating site and  index the web address listed. Targetlaw is highly optimized to drive traffic to firms’ websites.

3. Attorneys should take advantage of their existing Blog. Targetlaw can automatically feed an attorney’s five most recent blog posts to their Targetlaw profile. Simply type in the RSS feed address of the blog. Why is this important? First, visitors finding an attorney’s profile are not only able to read the descriptive content of the profile, but also see what the attorney has posted in their blog. Second, the blog feed also adds more and constantly refreshed content to the Targetlaw profile. Search engines look favorably on refreshed content.

4. Twitter. Similar to the Blog feed on the Targetlaw profile, a Twitter feed can also be added. Twitter posts are generally more frequent than Blog posts, so this adds additional and refreshed content to the Targetlaw profile. Visitors now can read the lastest tweets and blog snippets an attorney or firm writes.

5. Legal Articles. Targetlaw allows for legal articles to be submitted by attorneys in the directory. Legal articles build great content that is linked to the attorney’s Targetlaw profile and webpage. All articles submitted and published by Targetlaw will be listed and hyperlinked within the attorney’s profile listing.

6. Tags. Targetlaw allows for firms to “tag” or categorize their profile and articles. Tags give search engines a good one or two word summary of what the webpage is all about. For location type tags, we recommend using location tags of city(s), state(s), region(s), country(s), and county(s). For practice area tags, we recommend such terms in the stye of “personal injury attorney” and “Baltimore personal injury attorney”.

With these six features of the Targetlaw lawyer directory, firms can help drive web traffic to their websites and leverage their existing blog, Twitter, and legal article efforts.

Targetlaw Adds Attorney Blogs and RSS to Listings

Targetlaw, a leading online attorney directory, has recently enabled member lawyers to add their blog web address and RSS feed to their directory listings. Not  only will visitors to Targetlaw be able to see the attorney’s blog, but also to read the attorney’s most recent blog post titles and snippets.

Targetlaw has become is now an online law firm web directory, an attorney blog directory, and attorney Twitter directory. An individual attorney listing now includes the attorney’s recent Twitter Tweets, recent blog post titles, and links to articles submitted to Targetlaw.

Why would an attorney wish to submit their blog to Targetlaw:
1. Targetlaw will help drive web traffic to the attorney’s blog.
2. The recent blog posts and snippets will add and refresh relevant content on the attorney’s profile. The more content on a profile (or any web page), the higher the rankings in the search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing etc).

If an attorney or law firm has gone through the effort of creating and updating a blog, then it makes sense to submit their blog and profile to Targetlaw. Targetlaw continues to be a free lawyer directory.

Targetlaw Adds Twitter Functionality to Attorney Profiles

Targetlaw, an innovative online lawyer directory, is pleased to announce that Twitter Username and Feeds are now available to be added to attorney profiles. Attorneys will be able to create or edit their attorney listing and not only add a Twitter Username, but also their law firm’s website, practice areas, address, phone number, state,  summary description, attorney overview, practice area tags, and location tags.

Attorneys will now be able to have visitors easily follow them on Twitter. In addition, the  latest 5 Tweets will listed on their attorney profile. These last 5 tweets will refresh the content on the lawyer’s profile, which is very search engine (Google, Yahoo!, Bing etc) friendly. The more the attorney profile appears highly in search engines, the more web traffic will be driven to the law firm’s website.

In addition to a law firm website directory, Targetlaw has become an attorney Twitter Directory. Visitors can seek out attorneys they wish to follow by reading the attorney’s complete profile and simply clicking on the Twitter username to start following.

Social media has become a huge part of everyone’s web experience. Targetlaw’s new Twitter functionality takes advantage of this trend.

Targetlaw Continues Steady Growth

Targetlaw, a free online lawyer directory, continues to grow in number of attorney and law firm listings. Targetlaw now has over 500 practice areas, 20 countries, and 1000 localities listed validating the website as a legal information resource and lawyer search engine.

Some of the top practice areas that attorneys have listed under their profiles include:
Personal Injury
Auto Accidents
Wills & Estates
Bankruptcy
Commercial Litgation
Intellectual Property
DWI
Drug Overdose
Criminal Defense
Drug Overdose
Medical Malpractice
Real Estate
Complex Litigation

Some recent location tags include:
Tulsa Criminal Attorney
Baltimore DWI Attorney
Elkton Criminal Attorney
West Tulsa
Cecil County Criminal Attorneys
Orlando Car Accident Attorney
Ybor City
Florida

By utilizing location and practice area tags, Targetlaw is uniquely search engine optimized. Targetlaw continues to be a free lawyer directory and welcomes all attorneys to sign up for a free listing.

Why is Targetlaw Different From other Attorney Directories?

One of the first things you will notice when signing up for a profile at Targetlaw, an online lawyer directory, is that it is unlike virtually all other legal directories. Targetlaw was created for search engine optimization in mind. What does this mean to the law firm or attorney that creates a profile? Great web exposure.

There are aspects of Targetlaw that, unlike most online attorney directories,  are designed to help capture searches and search terms from major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Targetlaw allows for an extensive attorney description. This description allows for a lawyer to add rich content relevant to their practice areas, locations, and experience.  The more content a website, the more likely search engines will rank that web set higher in search results.

Targetlaw also allows for a “hot link” back to the lawyer’s website. Most other attorney directories either charge  for this feature or do not allow the search engine spiders to follow that link back to the attorney website.  The more hot links back to a particular website, the more “votes” of validation are registered with the search engines. The result: a law firm’s website will benefit from a Targetlaw listing containing a hot link.

In addition to descriptive attorney descriptions, Targetlaw allows attorneys to submit legal related articles that link back to their attorney profile. Articles are a great way to create content that is relevant to a particular practice of law. Articles can be very broad in scope, or can more specific to state and local law.

The latest feature to Targetlaw is the individual practice area/landing page. Law firms can create pages to specify practice areas and locations (the same way as submitting a legal article). Targetlaw also provides this service apon request.

What you may not notice is the behind the scenes web optimization Targetlaw utilizes to bring maximum web exposure to the attorney profiles. Optimal link exchange, categories, and tags are just a few examples of how Targetlaw is unique in lawyer directories.

One last, but very important feature:  Targetlaw is free of charge. That’s right, there currently is no charge to create an attorney profile.

New features are coming soon to Targetlaw. Be on the lookout for integration with Twitter and Attorney Blog RSS feeds.

Lawyer Article Submissions

If you are a lawyer and searching for a great online marketing vehicle that is free, consider submitting articles to TargetLaw. When you create an attorney profile in TargetLaw you can take advantage of free article submissions within the TargetLaw directory. The articles will be listed under your profile so potential clients can read about your knowledge on specific practice areas.

TargetLaw gives each attorney the ability to write articles that can be found on the major search engines. We also allow you to deep link the article giving you an incoming link to any page on your website. Whether you are writing an article about your law firm or submitting information regarding a specific practice area, article submissions at TargetLaw can help produce leads to your law firm.

Some of the benefits of submitting articles to TargetLaw include:

• Articles will drive more traffic to your website.
• It’s a free and easy way to generate back-links to your site.
• It will improve your website google page rank and search engine rankings.
• It will drive more qualified individuals to your practice.

TargetLaw has a vast network of websites that generate RSS feeds directly from our website. This will almost immediately generate back links to your site, increasing page rank and search engine placement.

TargetLaw is an online search engine marketing company that offers its services for free. If you are currently searching for new ways of generating traffic to your website, begin by submitting articles to TargetLaw today. You do the submission and we’ll take care of the optimization.

TARGETLAW ANNOUNCES THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION CENTERS

TargetLaw has announced the development of future information centers.  The information centers are planned to launch in order of client preferences.   We have teamed up with professional SEO experts and content development teams to determine the order of development.  In addition, we will still continue our review process with hired attorneys to make sure the content is compliant and attractive to the general consumer. We are extremely excited about the opportunity to offer additional content to help our clients maximize their exposure on the internet.  The content will help boost the profiles that are submitted to the TargetLaw directory.

Targetlaw will plan to release information centers for all legal practice areas.  In addition to the pages of custom content, attorneys will benefit through random link exchanges boosting the attorney profiles rankings.  The information centers will stand as a great way to capture additional traffic to the site, while keeping the consumer searching for those attorneys that handle their specific legal needs.

TargetLaw

Based out of Baltimore, Maryland, TargetLaw is an internet marketing company that provides free attorney profiles and article submissions which are professionally optimized for instant exposure in the major search engines. With law firm’s limited marketing budgets in mind, TargetLaw’s model is simple: allow attorneys to create free profiles with great link exchange, offer free article submission service and through search engine optimization, build a bridge from the lawyer to the general consumer looking for legal representation. Dedicated to providing online search engine optimization, TargetLaw understands firms should spend more time practicing law and less time developing large solutions that are not optimized correctly. The consultants at TargetLaw have over 20 years of combined experience in Web site creation and technology.

Long Tail Searches, Important to a Law Firm’s Online Strategy

When a law firm or solo practitioner starts to formulate or revamp a web marketing strategy, an often overlooked aspect of search engine marketing is a term “long tail searches”.  What long tail searches are, why they are important, and how to capture these searches will be discussed in a moment.

 First, there are a few distinct ways in order for an attorney or law firm website be found on the internet.

1. A visitor searches for an attorney or law fim ‘ s name in a search engine such as Google, Yahoo!, or Bing. This is important, as many of these visitors may have been referred to your practice by word of mouth. As simple as it may sound, make sure that both the firm and the lawyers’ names are on many of the website’s webpages.

2. A internet surfer can find a lawyer ‘ s website by typing in key word phrases or terms into search engines that law firms wish to rank high in the results, thereby resulting in visits. For instance “Baltimore Personal Injury Lawyer”; Although these terms can be valuable in obtaining prospective clients, many firms spend too much time, effort, and money for these competitive terms.  If there are 100 attorney websites in a particular city all crafting their sites for the key term “Phoenix DWI Lawyer”, it is very tough to rise up in the search engine results.

3. Legal and business directories are also pathways for a isitor to be directed to a law firm ‘ s website. Depending on the cost, these directories maybe worth investigating. If a firm or attorney does opt for a paid listing, make sure that there is an ability to track the amount of visitors from that directory. Without proper tracking, a lawyer could be wasting money on a directory listing

4. A internet user could click on a firm ‘ s pay per click advertising by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. Pay per click can be a great compliment to any practice ‘ s internet marketing strategy. As stated under directory listing, a firm should track and analyze the effectiveness of pay per click advertising.

5. Long Tail Searches:  Long tail searches are search phrases that visitors use, once or twice. That ‘ s right, a search phrase that may never be repeated. These type of searches are impossible to anticipate and even if they were, it would not be worth spending time and effort to secure them. An example of a long term Search could be “I ‘ m coughing a lot, could this be because I worked on pipes while at Sparrow ‘ s Point in Baltimore ?” Notice there are no key words such as “asbestos” or “Mesothelioma”. Long tail searches are often can be a large percentage of all web visitors going to a firm’s website.

How does a law firm website show up on the top pages of Google, Bing, Yahoo! and other search engines for these types of searches? Three words: Content, Content, and Content. As there is no possibility to anticipate these type of searches a lawyer must add much relevant content to a specific practice area. This goes beyond just a quick practice overview on an About Us page. Here are some suggestions to capture long tail searches:

a. Create an Blog for the practice or for individual attorneys. Blogs for lawyers (also knows as Blawgs) are great vehicles to publish content to the internet in a less formal tone than website content or a legal article. Most lawyers find it fairly easy to create blog posts on a regular basis. Commenting on new laws, statutes, new items, etc. are great catalysts for blog posts. As the language of a blog is oftentimes more informal than a website, this helps capture the average lay person ‘ s lexicon when they enter long tail searches.

b. Make sure you firm ‘ s website has plenty of relevant and fresh content. Make sure that you have relevant practice descriptions, attorney profiles, case profiles, legal articles, practice centers, etc., that all contain information on what your firm does. The more content the firm ‘ s website has, the more likely the website will rank high for a long tail search. Refresh and add to the firm ‘ s content. If a new lawyer joins the firm, create an extended bio page, for instance.

c. Any profile listings on directory sites should be extensive as possible with unique content (not copied and pasted from the firm ‘ s website or from another directory listing).  Oftentimes, a lawyer ‘ s directory listing my rank higher on the search engines than the firm ‘ s website for long term searches. If the directory asks for an attorney extended bio, be as descriptive as possible. Why not take advantage of your free or for fee directory listing?

These are just a few ways to help law firms and individual attorneys capture the little considered long tail searches. Remember content is key to rank highly in the search engines for these types of searches.

Targetlaw

Targetlaw, Lawyer Search Engine now an Attorney Directory

Just a reminder to all the law firms, attorneys, and lawyers that submitted their websites to the  Targetlaw Search Engine in the past, these listings will expire soon. Please go to the Submit Profile page and create an Attorney Listing for each of the attorneys in your law firm. There is no charge to create a profile. The profile allows for biographical information for each lawyer including Practice Areas, Law Firm Name, Address, Website, Attorney Overview, Summary Description, and Location Tags. Once an attorney has submitted their profile, they will be able to submit legal articles.

Targetlaw is search engine (Google, Yahoo!, Bing etc) friendly and has attorneys from virtually every state in the United States as well as Canada, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Targetlaw continues to be a free legal directory. Targetlaw will continue to develop directory-like solutions to assist attorneys in gaining online exposure.

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