Increasing your law firm’s visibility within search engines is a great way to increase traffic to your site and increase potential client inquiries. Every single day, thousands of people across the country use search engines to get in touch with local legal professionals. I can tell you from direct experience that search engine marketing can work very effectively for attorneys. However, not all search engine optimization campaigns are equal.
As you might guess, some search marketers try to sell a set of services or techniques that simply won’t generate more visitors or targeted potential client leads. Generally speaking, these services do the “run of the mill” search marketing tactics. When it comes to marketing in the legal profession, online competition is fierce. While some of these “stock seo” strategies may work in less competitive verticals, they simply don’t work in legal.
Here are a couple basic tips for increasing your firm’s visibility within search engines.
Blog Networks
You may be familiar with using a legal blog to attract new readers and position yourself as an expert in your specific field online. While having a blog can be great, being a part of a network of legal blogs can be even better. A legal blog network provides several benefits over an isolated blog. First, the network gives you an avenue through which to build relationships with other legal bloggers. These relationships can open several new doors in terms commenting, guest posting, sharing content, and gaining publicity for your own blog. Second, the network gives you access to powerful and relevant links. Strong blog networks can provide very impressive results in a very short period of time.
Content Marketing
Getting quality content onto strong publishing platforms is an excellent way to help increase your search engine positions. Search engines want to serve up great content. By placing that content on an authoritative domain, you can increase the exposure or your content. While general content publishing platforms are good, legally relevant content platforms are even better. These sites are already positioned well for various legal search phrases. By adding your content to these sites, your marketing message will appear in some of the more competitive search phrase results.
AttorneySync’s Gyi Tsakalakis provides attorney web strategy solutions to legal professionals looking for information, tools, and resources to increase their visibility online. For more information, check out this blog on seo for lawyers.