Resources for Wrongful Death Attorney Directory and Articles

Free Wrongful Death Lawyer Directory

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Free Lawyer Directory by State and Global Listings

Lawyer Directory by State

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Free SEO Services to Increase Search Engine Results

Free SEO Services to Increase Google Rankings

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Free Attorney Blog Theme Wordpress - Black, Gray, Blue

If your looking for a free attorney blog theme for Wordpress or a business blog, the following child theme has been created for Graphene.  You can customize the background that is currently black and you can customize the header with your own.  The child template just changes the colors from blue and light gray to black and dark gray.   To install this free template, you need to perform two free uploads.

Step #1:  Download the WordPress Graphene theme here. Then take the unzipped files and place them in your >Public HTML>Directory Folder>wp-content>themes folder.

Step #2:  Create a child folder after downloading the zip folder here and place the unzipped folder and file in your template directory >Public HTML>Directory Folder>wp-content>themes.  After the folder is created and the css file is uploaded, you just need to apply your theme in Wordpress to the new child theme.  The child folder will be at the same level as your main theme. 

Free Lawyer Blog Template for Wordpress

 If your looking for a free template or theme for your law practice, one creative option is to download a free theme and then customize the header to achieve a law related theme.  The following free lawyer blog template for Wordpress was created in just five minutes by downloading the Graphene 1.3 template directly from WordPress here.  This template was created by Syahir Hakim. 

Although we can't give away the header without violating iStock photo terms of use, you can purchase the image at http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-7606787-justice-gavel.php for around $6 directly.  If you purchase the image and send e-mail confirmation to wordpress@free-links-lawyers.com we will e-mail you a copy of the image above.  Once you have the new header, you just click appearance, header, and upload the new image from your computer.  Within the template, you can just type in plain text have your law firm name and slogan under Settings. 

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.