The 10 Must-Have Features of Highly Successful Law Firm Websites

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When you set out to create your law firm’s website, I think it’s a fair assessment to say that you did not do it just for fun. No – I’m guessing you’re working on your firm’s website for one key business goal:

Finding more clients.

That’s right. Merely having “a website” should never be the only goal. The goal is to have “a website that gets you more clients”.

But what are the features that take you from a generic law firm website to a client-grabbing, business-boosting website? That’s the key question, and that’s the topic I’m going to cover in this post.

When you’re finished reading this post, you’ll know the 10 features of highly successful law firm websites. Bake these tips into your firm’s website if you want to get more clients from your digital ventures.

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How to Sell Services and Accept Payments With WordPress and WooCommerce

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Are you struggling to accept payments for services on your WordPress site? It can be tricky. See, WordPress makes it fairly simple to get the job done…but not without help from some plugins.

In this post, I’ll show you how to get paid for your services on WordPress using the popular WooCommerce plugin. No matter if you’re part of a law firm, medical office, a consultant, or anyone else looking to accept payment for services, WooCommerce can work for you.

And in this post, I’ll show you exactly how to get set up.

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3 Best WordPress SEO Plugins Compared – Yoast vs. All in One vs…

By Colin Newcomer55 Comments

A post on the best SEO plugins for WordPress? Isn’t that just a single item list that reads “Yoast SEO”?

Well, if you go with the mainstream answer, then probably yes. There’s no doubt that Yoast SEO is the most popular and most recommended WordPress SEO plugin out there. But didn’t your parents ever tell you that you shouldn’t jump off a cliff just because your friends are?

Ok, that’s unfair to Yoast. Using Yoast isn’t jumping off a cliff. But, I think there is an argument to be made that Yoast should not be the default plugin in 100% of situations.

So to that end, I’m going to spend this post investigating the best WordPress SEO plugins. Note that I’m going to focus on all-in-one SEO solutions, rather than plugins that offer tiny tweaks. And while that will certainly include Yoast, the list will not end after that entry.

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Imagify Review: A Quality WordPress Image Optimization Plugin

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Did you know that the average web page’s file size is made up of ~63% images? So if you want to speed up your WordPress site, one of the best things you can do is shrink your images’ sizes.

And one of the best ways to shrink your images’ sizes is…with a WordPress image optimization plugin. Imagify is one of those plugins. Imagify gives you three different levels of automatic image compression as well as automatic image resizing.

In my Imagify review, I’ll tell you a little about the plugin’s features, show you how it works, and then compare its compression to some of the other popular image compression plugins.

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6 Best WordPress Security Plugins to Help Thwart Hackers

By Colin Newcomer8 Comments

If you’re like most WordPress users, you love installing plugins that add cool new front-end features to your WordPress site. A new contact form? Sign me up. Social login? Yup, I’ll take that!

Plugins that work entirely behind the scenes? Those aren’t quite as sexy. But here’s the thing:

Oftentimes those backend, behind-the-scenes plugins are the most important. SEO, backups, and…security.

That third one is what this post is all about – the best WordPress security plugins to keep your awesome site safe from those nasty folks we know as hackers. Because even if you’re (hopefully!) keeping your WordPress site updated, there are still plenty of potential backdoors for hackers to find. Choosing one of these security plugins will help to limit those…

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