68% of online experiences begin with a search engine. SEO for law firms gets your website noticed by on and search engines.
68% of online experiences begin with a search engine. SEO for law firms gets your website noticed by on and search engines.
SEO for Law Firms
SEO, or search engine optimisation, is a term used to describe a broad range of activities that can help your law firm’s website be found when potential clients use a search engine to find legal services. By leveraging SEO, law firms can achieve a higher position on a search engine’s page for key phrases. In turn, this helps potential clients find your law firm’s website (because no one ever clicks across to page 2 on Google).
Improved SEO helps law firms achieve:
Improved SEO helps law firms achieve:
Increased Visibility and Credibility
More Client Leads
Higher Quality Leads
Improved Branding
Increased Trust
Long-Term Impact
CASE STUDY: PRIVACY 108
To deliver Privacy 108’s 4 x monthly blog content, we prepare rolling 3-monthly calendars outlining the content proposal. The proposed content calendar is based on current local events in business and law, as well as suggestions provided by Privacy 108’s team members. From there, we draft blog posts that cover the relevant content including the law, relevant anecdotes, tips and benefits, and action items. This draft then goes through an approval process, before being published to the Privacy 108 Insight’s blog each week.
“Working with Obiter has been amazing. We’ve locked in a least 4 blog posts per month on topics that support our business and align with on-line interest, which has been fabulous for Privacy 108. We’ve definitely secured new clients through the boost to our on-line presence from working with Obiter Marketing.” – Dr Jodie Siganto, Director at Privacy 108.
Delivering Real Value with SEO-Driven Content for Law Firms
Delivering Real Value with SEO-Driven Content for Law Firms
SEO-driven content is designed to appeal to search engine algorithms but there’s no reason that needs to be the sole purpose of it on your website. When your SEO-driven content is written well for its human readers too, the value of the content for your law firm climbs exponentially.
Obiter Marketing focuses on delivering content that is easy to understand and valuable for visitors to your website AND can be easily found by Google’s bots. It is drafted by writers who have graduated (or will graduate shortly) from law school and overseen by writers with strong knowledge of SEO. In essence, we create content that helps your law firm get the best of every world.
FAQs about SEO for Law Firms
Search engine optimisation is the process of writing or manipulating content on websites so that it appeals to the search engine algorithms and, therefore, ranks better on them.
Achieving results from search engine optimisation efforts requires:
- A deep understanding of what each search engine algorithm is looking for on webpages.
- Creativity and the ability to write content that delights the human audience, as well as the bots.
- The ability to read and decipher website analytics and make suggestions to improve poor metrics.
- Strong technical SEO knowledge on the part of web developers.
- Strong ability to design webpages so that they look good for your website users and make sense to the search engine algorithm
Generally, it’s uncommon for one person to have all these skills. At Obiter Marketing, our in-house talent advises on the first three points, and we outsource or engage contractors for web development and design.
Only if you want your website to rank highly for searches made on search engines, like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and the like. While this may seem like a no-brainer, there are compelling reasons that only engaging in SEO for your law firm’s services isn’t a viable strategy for some law firms (especially where there’s high competition and you have a low budget).
However, the best mid- to long-term marketing strategies improve SEO outcomes over time too. For instance, running a law firm blog (properly) can improve your SEO significantly over a 12-month period, while also providing added value to existing or potential clients. Similarly, creating more in-depth services pages makes it more likely that you’ll rank for those terms, while also giving your clients more information about the services you provide and clientele you serve. Essentially, it’s wise to build long term marketing plans on SEO as well as client needs to achieve website success.
When done properly, SEO is very effective. However, it can be expensive where competition for first page rankings is very high. This means it’s not always viable for law firms to use SEO as a short or mid-term tool to get marketing leads.
Some of the factors that are going to impact the effectiveness of SEO include:
- The number of law firm websites vying for those top ranks on search engines.
- The age of your website (and the age of your competitors’ sites).
- The number of webpages linking back to your law firm’s website (and to your competitors’ sites).
- The quality of the SEO work provided.
Again, it depends. For some law firms operating in low competition markets, a few hundred dollars can go a very long way. For others operating in high competition markets, $10,000 wouldn’t make a dent in the rankings over the course of one year.