The formula for a great legal website has evolved over the years. Before, 5-page brochure websites were good enough for your firm to get more cases on the web, but not anymore.
Adding content that is relevant to your firm’s practice areas on a regular basis can improve the quality and quantity of your visits, leads, and cases.
Want to know more about why content is so important ever since Google’s Penguin and Panda updates?
Mobile Websites
Many believe that mobile device usage will overtake traditional computer and laptop usage by 2014. Are you ready for the mobile revolution?
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SEO For Law Firms
Choosing a Web Marketing Provider
As a company with years of experience in the legal web marketing and SEO field, we’ve spoken to a number of attorneys over the years who have worked with a number of different providers, and we’ve head all of the horror stories. Whether it’s finding out that the web company that you’re trying to switch away from is going to charge you an arm and a leg to be able to keep your current content (while holding you hostage), having to wait days and/or weeks for them to correct a simple problem on your website, working with 20 other law firms in your area, or trying to sell you a new product or service every time you speak to them, we’ve heard all of the stories.
We offer all of our clients the following when it comes to SEO for law firms and attorneys:
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redibility
We’ve worked with law firms from all over the country and in a number of practice areas, from personal injury and mass tort law to bankruptcy, family law, wills and estate, and a number of other practice areas. We’ve established ourselves as experts when it comes to obtaining higher rankings on Google, Bing, and Yahoo! for any type of law firm site (regardless of where you’re located or how many offices you have), and we pride ourselves on staying updated on changes to search engine algorithms, as well as factors that might result in a search engine penalty from Google. We’ve presented at legal marketing conferences, contributed as guests on a number of legal marketing blogs and websites, and we have a number of testimonials from satisfied clients and attorneys who we’ve worked with over the years who will tell you the same.
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edication
If you’re working with another web marketing provider who also works with competing law firms in your area, and you’re frustrated about this, we understand why. There’s nothing more frustrating than when a web marketing firm is sold to the highest bidder, and if you’re paying your current provider a monthly fee just to find out that they’re working with other law firms in your area who are outranking you on Google and other search engines, you have a right to be concerned. At The Search Ninjas, we offer all of our clients exclusivity, meaning that we’ll never work with another law firm in your practice area and geographical location, no matter how much those other firms are willing to pay us after you’ve become a client.
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xperience
We’ve noticed that a lot of Legal SEO companies have started popping up over the past few years, many of them being run by people who have only recently started performing SEO and with limited knowledge. George Murphy, the founder of The Search Ninjas, has been doing search engine optimization for over 6 years and knows what it takes to obtain top search engine rankings for your law firm’s website. George actually ran a competitor of The Search Ninja’s web marketing department for years before starting The Search Ninjas, and has trained a number of SEO consultants who now have full-time careers in the field of SEO for law firms.
Do you have any questions or comments for us?
Or maybe you would like a free, no-hassle review of your current website?
Here are just a few of the features that clients of The Search Ninjas receive when using us for your website design:
Local SEO
Your website will be fully optimized to rank well for local searches on Google+ Local and other local search engines.
Content Management
With our content management system (CMS), you can easily change or add all of your website files, such as videos, photos, and page content.
Call Tracking and Reporting
View how many phone calls your website has generated on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, and listen to your phone calls to ensure performance from your receptionists and attorneys.
Performance and Maintenance
Optimized load times, regular crawl error checks, broken link checks, and other features which ensure maximum performance from your website.
Whether you’re a medium-to-large-size law firm or a solo attorney, it’s extremely important to your practice that you have a website which is well optimized from an SEO (search engine optimization) perspective. More people are using the Internet these days to find a lawyer than ever before. Traditional advertising methods such as phonebook and newspaper advertisements are quickly being replaced by websites and blogs, and lawyers all over the country are investing more and more time and money to maintain a visible presence on the web than ever before.
If your website doesn’t rank on page one or number one on Google, Bing, or Yahoo!, then it’s very likely that you’re losing clients to other local law firms who have spent the necessary time and money to obtain top rankings. It’s a known and verified fact that the higher that a website ranks on a major search engines for a given keyword, the more clicks that website will receive. This means more leads, more cases, and of course, more money.
One of the most important factors when it comes to your law firm or solo attorney website ranking well on Google and other major search engines is how well it is optimized. This includes on-page SEO factors such as keywords being included in the page titles and meta descriptions, how often keywords are included in your legal website’s content, how many pages your legal website has, your website’s load time, and other internal factors such as sitemaps and internal linking structure.Yes, there is a lot that goes into the search engine optimization (SEO) of a law firm or attorney website.
In addition to the countless on-page optimization factors that are necessary for your legal website to be properly optimized for SEO, there are also a number of off-page factors that are just as important to your website’s success on Google, Bing, and Yahoo!. How many links your website has from other relevant websites, the quality of the inbound links that are coming into your law firm or attorney website, how your website is hosted (does it have a dedicated IP address or is it in a shared hosting environment, etc.), and other off-page factors are only a few of the things that will make the difference between your website being on page one and your website being on page twenty.
In The United States, a person can represent his or herself in the court of law and elect not to obtain an attorney. The same holds true when it comes to the search engine optimization (SEO) of your law firm or attorney website.You can choose to do it yourself, which consists of countless hours optimizing your website, writing content, building links, and maintaining and monitoring your website on a regular basis. But wouldn’t you much rather be spending time doing what you’ve been educated and trained to do as a professional: practice law?
Law Firm SEO
You’re The Lawyer. Leave the SEO to Us. We specialize in law firm and attorney SEO, and we’ve been doing so for a number of years. We’ve worked with law firms and solo attorneys from all over the country to improve their search engine rankings not only on Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, but also on local search engines such as Google Places/Google Plus and other local directory sites which are extremely important when it comes to marketing to your local target audience.
SEO For Law Firms
Contact Us
For more information on how we can help you, please contact us, or feel free to request a free legal SEO analysis which will give you a full, detailed audit on your law firm website’s SEO.
Do You ONLY Work With Law Firms?
While The Search Ninjas work primarily with lawyers/law firms, we don’t work exclusively with lawyers. We’re located in Baltimore, Maryland and we’re always willing to speak to other small business owners and corporations about how we can improve their website’s SEO, so feel free to contact us for more information if you’re not a law firm or attorney. We are located in Baltimore, MD and also service clients in the Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Washington, DC metro area.
