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I have been looking at Google organic SERP results. I think (can't be sure, was not spending every day with it, don't you know) that the Possum update pushed me as a Dallas disability lawyer down many slots, and ranks sites like yelp, superlawyers, and findlaw in the top slots. I did some searches in other areas and found the same general trend. Anyone that works with attorneys and lawfirm also conclude that recent google changes have favored these directory type sites? What is annoying is this: both superlawyers and lawfind are directories in which the lawyer pays the the nose to get the top listings. So Google appears in the legal area to be favoring attorneys that pay big money to third party attorney directories.
As an aside, but interesting I think, is the attached SERP results for "dallas personal injury lawyer". There findlaw is no 1. More importantly, lucky attorney Aaron A. Herbert get a free ad right there in organic? As does lucky attorney Ted Lyons in superlawyer. But wait, I thought findlaw and superlawyer were directories. Why would Google arbitrarily decide to favor one of the directory listed attorneys?
As an aside, but interesting I think, is the attached SERP results for "dallas personal injury lawyer". There findlaw is no 1. More importantly, lucky attorney Aaron A. Herbert get a free ad right there in organic? As does lucky attorney Ted Lyons in superlawyer. But wait, I thought findlaw and superlawyer were directories. Why would Google arbitrarily decide to favor one of the directory listed attorneys?