I'll have to figure out how to do this. I was planning on using Wordpress for this. Here is the demo site I have so far.  dental1.datacomplete.com. I don't think this theme can be tweaked to allow for the landing pages as you described but I will give it a shot tomorrow.  Unfortunately the dentists that I am working with are going through a rebuilding process and their funds are somewhat limited so I am trying to get something up for them with cost in mind and with something that they can edit the content themselves.  Thanks again!

Thanks for the information.

Yes she has two locations operating under the same name and are 6 miles apart  with different zip codes and different phone numbers.

I may want to try that "Chat Live Now" type of software for her practice and she may want to give different offers to different offices.

if i used something like mytoothdoctor.com for the main site and then displayed a box to choose a location would that be kinda goofy?

Then I would have mytoothdoctor.com as the main site and then torrance.mytoothdoctor.com and wilmington.mytoothdoctor.com

Dentists buy other practices all the time. Sometimes they change the name of the practice and other times they keep the name.

I am working with a dentist on a new website because their old one is riddled with flash (and is ugly too)  She has two practices but they have the same practice name. One of them caters to half English speaking and half Spanish speaking patients.

I'm thinking I should create a separate website for each practice mainly because we may want to design the graphics and text for the appropriate patient language probably with a English/Spanish translation button on the website?

For localization, wouldn't it be better to have a url for each physical site?

Suggestions?

Thanks for the guidance. Time for more learning! I'll get with their web developer and see if we can make this happen. I guess the next question would be the preference of blogging software. Bloglines, Typepad. Does it really matter as long as there is good content?

These are all great questions.

I was using SEOmoz to look for all the backlinks that our competitors have.  I noticed that an attorney out of Texas who came up #1 in Google for Divorce Attorney had a backlink at typepad and articlebase.(just to name a few)  At the moment, I was thinking that we need to create articles and blogs so we could get the same backlinks they do.  That's about as far as my thinking went.

On your point #1, I called the headline creating backlinks because my goal at the moment is to create more backlinks than out competitors. It just so happens that the backlinks from our competitors with the highest domain authority were typepad and articlebase.

On your point #2, Since I have never set up a blog site before, I'm kind of lost on the best approach.  Sounds slick to integrate it into the law firm website. I am just looking to see what our competitors are doing who are ranked on the first page of Google and emulating what they are doing. The goal would be to do everything you said.

I have seen articles that lawyers have written 2 or 3 years ago still showing up as one of their backlinks . I want to do the same for my client.

I'm on my first SEO project with a law firm. I'm at the stage where I am doing competitive backlink research on other law firms that my client gave me.

I saw a blog site called typepad. It has a high domain authority so I was going to recommend to my client that they set up an account and blog away!

Since it's a law firm, I am not qualified to start blogging on behalf of my client and I know they are extremely busy so now I have to "ride" my client to get busy and start creating content.

I feel like I want to do more for them on the blog side to keep things going but not having a law background, probably not doable.

Question: Do most SEO's do the blogging for their clients, farm it out or keep pushing their clients to do it?

I also want them to sign up with articlebase but the same thing is going to happen. I have to push them to write articles. I guess this is my job?

-Bob

Thanks for the info Robert. Just finished a night of uploading videos for my client to their new YouTube channel I just setup. Spent a bunch of hours scouring a ton of websites making sure I optimized the videos... doing my due diligence.

I really appreciate your  help. This is my first big client and what is good about it is that they need absolutely everything. Having to learn about setting up all the social media, web content and.. well you know... There is a ton of stuff to learn and I love it! I think that this is one profession that will never get  old!

-Bob

I am working with a friend of mine who is a lawyer. He has one partner and a couple of other lawyers at the firm. The attorneys each have their own Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin ,Youtube and other social media accounts. I am trying to create one brand, which is the name of the law firm.

Question 1:

It would make sense to me to create all social media accounts under the law firm name. Would you agree on this?   I'm worried that users wouldn't use the company facebook page if they are used to communicating to the attorney through their personal accounts.

Maybe I should put the social media links for the firm on the home page only and then put the individual social media links next to the attorney profile page?

Question 2:

The firm has been posting Youtube videos but under one of the attorney's names. I have 16 new videos they want posted and they asked me if they should be posted to a new company name channel (yet to be created) or post them under one of the attorneys accounts?

I think that most attorneys might look out for themselves ahead of the Firm. If they ever change jobs, they don't have a built up social profile if everything is listed under the firm name.

Maybe the way to go would be to help optimize both the attorneys personal profiles and then the firm?

Thoughts?