Three Tips To Make The Most Of Your Attorney Marketing Internet Campaign
Make no mistake, the web is better than the old-school ads that law firms used to use like yellow books, billboards & even tv in some areas. The web is by far the best place for perceptive Lawyer Marketing experts to get the best cases over other attorneys in their local geography. Good news – if you haven’t started marketing your firm on the web yet, you haven’t lost too much ground, and can still make money. Here are strong suggestions to capitalize on internet search:
1. Don’t Wait Any Longer – SEO Now. Start to SEO your website. You are invisible to people looking specifically for you every day. There are truly thousands of searches every month by someone looking for a DUI Attorney (or what you practice) in San Diego (or your city). Bottom line, you need to be found on the search engines, ideally the first page. That is what SEO does for you. If done well, SEO will get you on the top for the most-searched phrases internet users are typing in to find a lawyer.
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 the people you’re looking to hire have an optimized site? Go to Google and type in Attorney Marketing, or Lawyer SEO. If their own web site shows up for those highly-searched lawyer marketing terms, then they probably have the ability to get your web site ranked high too. Depending on your city and practice area, (some like Criminal 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 you, would you get at least 1 to 2 clients a month? What would you make from cases like that?
Another attorney refers you a case, where are they going to go to look YOU up on the web. So when they type your name into Yahoo, be certain that what they see is something you are proud of. The last thing you want is for someone to be so disinterested with your image that once they find you, they go back to Yahoo and find your competitors.
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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