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FindLaw’s Reported Offer to Sell Links to Websites Has Blogosphere Talking
Posted Aug 19, 2008, 08:31 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Bloggers are talking about FindLaw’s reported attempt to sell links to lawyer and corporate websites for $1,000 a month.
A blogger known as Oilman reports on an e-mail he got from FindLaw that says the links may help increase a website’s visibility and rank on search engines such as Google. That led a blogger at GetLawyerLeads.com to say the offer is a violation of Google’s policy and that such links “will almost certainly be devalued.” The blog post headline asks if FindLaw is “scamming customers.” Kevin O’Keefe’s Real Lawyers Have Blogs summarizes other blog posts about the growing controversy.
Yet another blogger, Robert Ambrogi, is questioning whether the criticism by GetLawyerLeads… Continue reading...
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