Website Recovery, Rebuild, and Repairs for Lawyers
We recover, repair and rebuild attorney websites for attorneys, doctors, and business websites.
Do you have an exit strategy from your current web services provider?
If you are under contract with a web service provider that permits them to strip metadata, applications, site features, content, hyperlinks, images - or any other "creations" from your website if you leave, contact us for specific advice before you cancel your contract.
Do you own copyrights to your metadata and other creations?
There are web companies in the industry catering to lawyers that own full copyrights to any works that they create for you.
Depending upon the company, that can mean they may own your flash, images, certain content, hyperlinks, and even metadata.
Under the terms of these agreements if you cancel your services your website can be stripped of page titles, metadata, applications, content, and anything else the company claims they "created" for you.
Although this is not very nice, it can also be very legal, and it will destroy your website.
Work for hire agreement laws may not protect your copyrights
Be advised that under California law, work-for-hire agreements automatically assign all copyrights for creations to the person who did the work - not the company who hired them.
In fact, the law is so well, stupid, that a work-for-hire in California cannot even sell you those copyrights unless certain expensive requirements are met before the agreement is even signed. Read California Work-For-Hire Copyright Laws to learn more.
We protect your copyrights
Website Recovery, Rebuild, Repairs for Lawyers / Special Services for Former FindLaw Attorney Clients
Some companies that use their own proprietary systems to create websites remove content, page titles, scripts, search boxes and other site features when you cancel your contract. They even may need to convert the site from one file extension to another before it is turned back over to you.
Any one of these things can cause your site to break down overnight and you are left scrambling to find someone who can fix it right, fix it fast, and who will not repeat the same mistakes made by your previous SEO company..
Even if you are still under contract with FindLaw, or another web service company we can help. And, unlike some other companies we DO guarantee our work.
Extreme Website Makeover for Lawyers
If you left FindLaw or another service provider and your website no longer works, or you lost part of it, contact us ASAP.
Site Removed by SEO or Hosting Company
To recover a website, it generally must have been live on the Internet for at least several months prior to it being lost. Website recovery is a manual process accomplished by searching archives and cached pages. Not all data can always be recovered so we need to assess recoverability on a case-by-case basis. It is important that you understand the longer you wait to recover a website, the less likely you are to get the entire site back.
Lost Page Rank and URLs
Some lawyer marketing companies use their own proprietary content management systems (CMSs.) When you leave their services your website is usually converted to a new format with new file extensions or it will not work outside their system. This means your old URLs will not longer work.
If you are not quick to set up the right page redirects from your old site to the new URLs you could end up in big trouble with search engines and people looking for your old site will not be able to find you.
We can help.
We can rebuild your website creating new (and better) metadata to get you back into search engines, repair broken navigation features, scripts, and in most cases, recreate the original look of your website including hyperlinks, content, images, and flash.
We ensure the infrastructure and applications that support and run your website is solid and friendly to information-seeking robots.
We give top priority to website repair and recovery for lawyers (and other professionals) who suddenly find themselves without a working website.
For many lawyers, a website is a lifeline for new client inquiries. Visitors that encounter a broken-down website might see your practice as unprofessional.
Problems we have encountered and fixed for other lawyers who were using another lawyer marketing company:
Domain was banned as a spam site by all four major search engines and was never indexed after 7 months. Client was told by previous company this was the "Google sandbox" effect and nothing could be done.
Site search functions and random pages added to site diverted away from client to service provider's site (where visitors were offered their services).
>>Read more real-life website horror stories (problems we have fixed for other clients)