Editorial Checklist for Clicklaw Contributors

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Maintaining an accurate and current listing on Clicklaw is important for Clicklaw contributors because it helps users find them. Accurate and current information helps build trust from Clicklaw users, which would lead to repeat visits and referrals.

Editorial checklist

The following checklist serves as a tool for the contributors to use when creating or updating their resources and services on Clicklaw.

• Use a unique, accurate title.
• Accurately summarize your resource or service in the description.
• Use plain language when writing the description.
• Use the year when a resource was last reviewed for its legal content for the year of publication (“year produced”).
• Use your organization’s logo for the thumbnail when a screen capture may not look suitable or attractive for your listing.
• Create tags for your resources to include terms that your users may use to search for your content. For services, try to include these terms in the description.

Use a unique, accurate title The title is used as the “title” meta tag for your Clicklaw pages. It will appear as the first line in Google search results and a descriptive title can help searchers recognize if your Clicklaw page is relevant to them.

Accurately summarize your resource or service in the description. This description is used as the “description” meta tag for your Clicklaw pages. Depending on a user’s query, Google might use the description meta tags as snippets for your pages. This is what users see on their Google search results and what help them decide to click through or not.

Use plain language when writing the description.