FindLaw Abandons Another Law Firm
It’s Halloween so, a perfect time for a scary post about a ghoul in our midst…. You’ll remember about a year ago, we knocked out a website for Kendall Coffman in 24 hours after FindLaw pulled the plug...
View ArticleReview of the ABA Top 100 Blogs
I took the time to review the ABA’s Top 100 Blawgs Blogs for 2016…. and must commend the selection team on pulling together a great list. My personal reflection is that there was a heavy focus on...
View Article.Law Comes Clean About SEO
I was bemused to see a tradeshow booth from .law at the recent AAJ conference in Louisville (which was awesome btw). And further bemused to know that Carl Jaeckel would be speaking to the conference...
View ArticleFindLaw’s Atrocious Social Media Product
File this one under another egregious example of tech salespeople peddling overpriced, ineffectual products at the legal community. I spoke with an attorney today who drops around $1,400 a month for a...
View ArticleRumor Mill: FindLaw transitioning sites to WordPress????
UPDATE: A second, well placed and completely unrelated source has corroborated FindLaw’s intent to migrate to WordPress. On the phone with another law firm prospect today who told me her FindLaw rep...
View ArticleHistorical SEO Spam from FindLaw
For those of you interested in a history lesson of how flagrant spam was back in the early(ish) days of SEO…. I was cleaning out my desk the other day and found a relic of FindLaw’s link selling...
View ArticleMartindale-Hubbell Aggressively Marketing Their LinkSpam Network
Psssst…buddy…you…with the struggling website…yeah you. Want to buy a link? How about 5? I’ve got some nice, hot, untraceable links right here in my coat. In the past 10 days, I’ve received questions...
View ArticleScrewing Lawyers: Calculate The True Cost of Your Agency’s Long Term Contract
I hear this story about once a day from a frustrated lawyer… “Our marketing isn’t working.” “My agency doesn’t tell me what they are doing.” “Our rankings haven’t improved.” “The vendor won’t let us...
View ArticleLet’s Make 2020 the Year of No Long Term Contracts
Here at Mockingbird, we have made our disdain for long-term contracts well-known. We have seen too many law firms fall victim to the predatory practices of FindLaw and other such agencies. Too many of...
View ArticleFindLaw WordPress Websites: A Cynical Middle Finger to Their Clients
FindLaw has a history of tying up their clients in contractual and technical knots, so I shouldn’t be surprised at their latest technical entanglement. I’ve been quiet about FindLaw for a few years...
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