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Steps to drive high quality traffic to your legal website
By Bob Schwartz, CRS, GRI ©2007 Promotions Unlimited All rights reserved.
Your firm finally made the commitment to join the Internet community and had a professional web design firm create a really good looking website. Now after a year or so, you’re wondering not only why you’re not getting any new clients from your site, but also why your site’s traffic is low.
The response is that the vast majority of website design companies are not search engine optimization firms. With most major search engines returning about ten websites per page on a given keyword search, basically, if your site is not within the first three pages of returned results, your site’s effectiveness as a new client generator is nil.
It is this fact that has caused the rise in the pay-for-placement/pay-per-click search engine revenue model. An interesting fact about buying ‘sponsored’ or ‘featured’ positions is that it is estimated that upwards of 50% of the web surfers will skip over these listings in favor of the ‘organic’ listings.
A recent search on Google for the phrase ORANGE COUNTY ATTORNEYS found 251,000 results. With a mere ten organic returned results per page, do you really think a potential client will find your site if it appears on page 23?
The competition for top organic search engine is tough and requires the knowledge and expertise of a specialized firm. There are no quick fixes and many common techniques that were once successful are now considered Spam or manipulation by the search engines and although they still may result in a high placement, this will not last long. Once such techniques are detected} by search engines, you can expect to have your site banned from the search results, or if you are lucky, your site will just be {{dropped to the bottom of any search results.
Let’s see some real life results to prove my point. Using the keyword phrase ORANGE COUNTY ATTORNEYS, and just looking at page one returned search engine results, below is how our LA/Orange County legal directory ranked:
For 65 keywords, this directory has 463 page one results on a number of key search engines. This is what propels our targeted traffic. For July 2004 we had 3,036 unique visitors to just this directory.
The best cost efficient strategy for most legal firms is to join with firms like ours, which specialize in high search engine placement, for city specific legal key words, through directory style websites. As shown above, the bottom line is top placement for legal keyword phrases that are likely to be used by potential new clients seeking legal assistance.
Copyright 2007 Promotions Unlimited. All rights reserved.ABOUT THE AUTHORBob Schwartz, is the founder of Promotions Unlimited http://www.websitetrafficbuilders.com an Internet legal directory (CA, TX & Las Vegas) publisher and search engine placement technology analyst. You can contact Bob via e-mail at seo711@gmail.com or visit his San Diego legal directory at: www.sandiegolawyerforyou.com
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