The appearance of your firm’s website can play a big role in a potential claimant’s decision to work with you. A potential client’s first impression of your firm may come from your website. Take a look at your firm’s site and try to figure out what kind of impression it’s making. If you find it fits any of the descriptions below, it may be time to update your firm’s site.
If you are already advertising your law firm on Google Ads and hope to spend your advertising budget more efficiently, consider testing automated bidding. Google Ads offers a plethora of automated bidding options for advertisers. Automated bidding does exactly as it sounds—it automates your bidding with the hope that machine learning automation will be more efficient than a human advertiser at campaign optimization.
Most law firms today invest time in search engine optimization, or SEO. SEO is one of the best ways to increase your caseload without paying the sky-high prices of legal keywords on Google AdWords. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of factors that go into determining which law firms rank well on Google. One factor you may not have considered is the site structure of your website and whether you use breadcrumbs.
Online lead generation is one of the most profitable ways to sign more clients to your firm. Unfortunately, you may find that even after you toil over PPC keyword bids and high-quality blog posts, you’re still not generating any leads. Here are 5 reasons why your digital marketing efforts may not yield as many clients as you’d like:
70% of business callers are placed on hold for some period of time. Of those placed on hold, around 60% end the call when they are put on-hold and there is no message or music. Of that 60%, 30% won’t even call back.
If you don’t give the potential claimants who are put on-hold a reason to stay on the phone and give them hope of talking to a representative from your firm, they’ll likely hang up. You could be losing out on cases for an inadequate on-hold message or not having one at all. When adding an on-hold message, keep the following tips in mind:
Lead generation is an effective an inexpensive way to supplement your current caseload. If you’ve ever worked with a lead provider before, you know you’re usually provided with a lead’s phone number and someone from your intake staff will call the lead to discuss his or her case. While calling a lead is always a great idea, you may wonder if you should text your lead as well.
Linkbuilding is at the heart of any successful search engine optimization strategy. If your firm is doing SEO, you should always make sure that you’re getting backlinks from relevant and high quality websites.
Due to the Google Penguin update, which penalizes websites for trying to boost the number of links directed to their site through shady link schemes, you can’t just post links wherever you want.
You need to make sure your links published to other sites are relevant and beneficial to both parties.
While Halloween is a time for scary movies, haunted houses and trick-or-treating, the scaring shouldn’t extend to your firm’s website. If you notice a drop in conversation rate or that your website is losing traffic, there could be some hair-raising issues with your firm’s site. Don’t let your website be one reason visitors runaway scared this Halloween. Use our tips below to turn your website from a freight to a delight.
Internal linking is a critical component to any legal marketing strategy. An internal link is a hyperlink from one page of your site to another page of content on the same domain. Unfortunately, it can be hard to decide where to link pages to, or how you should set up a link on a page. Here are some tips your firm can keep in mind when adding content and linking your pages from one another.
