Free Wordpress Theme Downloads for Lawyers

I found the following free Lawyer blog templates for Wordpress after setting up a blog for a law firm. Additional images and lawyer blog templates are coming soon.  Please comment if you have a free template to add. Each theme has been tested and widgetzed for easy installation.

Download the Wordpress Lawyer Blog Template (Law Blog)  

 
Download the Wordpress Lawyer Blog Template (Law) 

 Download the Wordpress blog template (Law Theme 2.7)

 Download the Wordpress blog template (Law Blog 1.0)

Download the Wordpress blog template (Legal-Team)

Update Wordpress Blog for Canonical URL (show www)

Google will penalize your web site or blog if they think it contains duplicate content.  If you don't configure a canonical URL where your site name converts to www.yoursitename.com, your content may be considered duplicitive.

According to Wikipedia, URL normalization (or URL canonicalization) is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner.

For Wordpress blogs, updating your URL to be SEO friendly, just go to your root directory and edit your .htaccess file to the following:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^yoursitename.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursitename/$1 [r=301,nc]
Redirect /folder http://www.yoursitename

How to Create SEO Friendly URLs in PHPLD

If you have recently launched a PHPLD, you will want to update the URLs so they are SEO friendly.  Search engines such as Google and Bing, will index your pages more effectively if they contain a key word that is applicable to a specific topic.

If your running PHPLD 4.0, you can login to your administration panel and go to Settings and then Search Engine Optimization.  You will want to enable URL re-write as "Yes" and re-write output as "this-is-the-article-title-1."  This will update your pages to only list the description.

The next option is the output extension.  I like URLs to be shorter so I avoid using .htm, .html, and .php.  If you select No Extension (Just the title), your URLs will show http://www.yourdomain.com/category_description.

If your site is crawled and indexed before creating SEO friendly URLs (i.e. http://www.free-links-lawyers.com/index.php?c=3712), you will need to navigate to the category and update data within the category for the site URL to be permanently changed.  You can try to rebuild the cache, but I have found that you have to update the actual category record for the URL name to be updated.  If you have links built, these should update automatically. 

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How to Apply 301 Redirects with PHPLD

If your looking to create a permanent 301 redirect on your phpld site so Google picks the URL you want, you can use the following code in your .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]