online reputation management for lawyers: 5 tips
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How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
For professionals such as a lawyers, what would happen if your reputation online was damaged?
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How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
Here are some tips to help you repair or fix your online reputation for lawyers:
Bad Online Reputation Affects Ability to Practice
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
If there is a problem, try and solve it immediately.
It probably will not go away. It can deteriorate quickly or move up the
first page.
Monitor Your Online Reputation
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
The best way to fix your online reputation:– Write good information.– Post frequently.
Create Good Content
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
Flooding the internet with quality content will eventually push the negative element off the first page.
Create Good Content
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
What to write? – See what other good things have been
written.– Make sure that they show up online. – Think of the major events, conferences,
awards, achievements and past cases.– Post or write about it.
Create Good Content
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
How long will it take? – In general, it can easily take several months.– Average projects take six months.– If necessary, consider working with a
professional to expedite the process.
Create Good Content
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
Use social media to spread the word about:– Blog content.– News sites.– Articles.– Press releases.
Share on Social Networks
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
This should include your already optimized:
– Twitter– Facebook – LinkedIn – Other accounts.
Share on Social Networks
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
Tweet daily. Post weekly on Facebook and LinkedIn. Add content to your blog every few
weeks.
Share on Social Networks
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
Search engines love sites related to your industry—law.
– This can rank higher than sites with more traffic.
– Be sure you have a presence on sites such as Avvo.com, and others.
Get a Presence on Law-Specific Websites
How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
Because the process can take months, prepare to:
– Spend hours a week to repair your online reputation.
– An online reputation professional can spend 30 to 100 hours to over months to repair the problem.
– It can take you twice as long.
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How Lawyers Can Repair Their Online Reputation
It is quite possible to repair or fix your legal online reputation.
Be prepared for the long haul. Keep at it. Know fixing your online reputation quickly
results in clients coming back.
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