You're fooling yourself if you don't see the web is replacing old-guard marketing that law firms used to use like yellow books, newspapers & even TV in some regions. The web is by far the best place for clever Lawyer Marketing experts to get the Internet clients over other attorneys in their local geography. Don't worry, if you haven't started marketing your firm on the Internet yet, you haven't totally missed out. Here are strong suggestions to get you going:
1. Optimize Now. Start to optimize your website. You are missing out on people looking specifically for you every month. There are honestly thousands of searches every month by someone looking for a Divorce Lawyer (or what you practice) in Salt Lake City (or where your office is). Bottom line, you need to be found on Major search engines like Google, ideally the first page. That is what optimization does for you. If done well, optimization will get you on the first page for the most-searched terms potential clients are using to find an attorney.
2. Spend The Money For A Pro In Legal SEO - Yes, there are many things that you can do on your own to help your cause, but there is only so much improving of your meta tags, improving your headings, bolding your text and other simple optimization techniques you can do yourself. Why do people hire you? Because you know what you are doing. Whatever money you spend on a good SEO Consultant for Law Firms is money well spent. But do your research. Don't just hire a local company who says they 'know' optimization. Make sure they are good at optimizing legal websites, as lawyer sites are very competitive and difficult to get on page one.
3. Is Your Web Site Impressive? - Think like an Attorney Marketing Professional. Don't go on the cheap for this one. You are competing with others who know the value of first impressions. Think of your site as a something to bring you clients. The real goal of your lawyer marketing is to get them to call you. A good site will capture the searchers who are looking for you on Google and don't know who you are yet, but make sure you keep the referrals that others lawyers pass on to you!
Do your own research. Go to Google and type in Lawyer Marketing, or Lawyer SEO. If their own site shows up for those highly-searched attorney marketing terms, then they probably have the ability to get your web site ranked high too. Depending on your geography and practice area, (some like Divorce are more competitive than others) you could expect to pay thousands of dollars a month or more for a good SEO professional. If all those searchers are looking for your specialty, do you think you would get at least one to two cases a month?
Lets say someone gets referred to you, where are they going to go to look YOU up? Absolutely! The web! So when they type your name into Bing, be certain that what they see is top quality. The last thing you want is for someone to be so unimpressed with your site that once they find you, they go back to Google and retain a different lawyer.
Expand your case load thanks to the Internet. If you want to excel at attorney marketing, use these tips and start taking advantage of the power of the Internet. Good luck, share your ideas with us! I will be happy to help!
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