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11 Lawyer SEO Website Tips for 2019

April 4, 2019 By lcourt3 Leave a Comment

SEO For Lawyers in 2019

Is your lawyer website ranked well at Google for both organic and local search terms?

First a lawyer comic strip…..

Now back to the business of getting new clients….

If you want to get more new clients online, you have to make sure your site is set up right and that you are creating an ongoing series of content and getting links from other relevant websites.

Here are a few lawyer SEO tips to help your attorney website rank better in the Google search results.

Top 11 Attorney SEO Website Tips

Search Engine Optimization for lawyers (SEO) consists of a lot more than setting up a few meta tags like in the good old days. In 2019, you must create a lot of content, create a lot of videos, get social signals, get links from other sites and then do a lot more than that. Its an ongoing thing with SEO but there are certain things that must be done if you want to have any chance of ranking #1 at Google for your law firms top keywords related to your location and practice areas.

Below are the top SEO tips for lawyers who want to try and do more with Internet marketing this year. Organic SEO, Local SEO, Video SEO, Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing, and Reputation Management are just a few of the things that you must do in 2019.

Top Tips for SEO Marketing in 2019 for Lawyers

#1- Have unique Longer Pieces of Content Created (2000 words PLUS)

*** This post is over 2500 words and will be 3500 once I add to it, like Im doing here!

This should be the #1 tip on any list these days. Content is the key to success online and it always has been. Lawyers are not very good at creating content for their own websites I’ve discovered and sometimes they won’t create any for years. To be fair, they have enough to do, yet it’s key that someone creates this content!

The more content you create, the better your SEO chances will be, simple as that. Its key in 2019 to create longer blog posts that are over 1000 words long and contain images, videos and infographics whenever possible. 1500-3000 word posts are even better.

If you create content, especially good content that is long and unique, well that alone is going to help. Yet the added benefits are that people will stay on your site longer, people will more likely share this content, getting you links and social signals and also Google should reward you with some kind of traffic love.

** April 2019 Update:

You need to create a LOT of unique content for

* Blog Posts

* Guest Posts

* Social Media Posts

All of the content MUST be 100% unique and be able to pass the Copyscape test. You need to have a paid account to use Copyscape but its worth to know if your content is unique. If you put up a Blog post, you do not want to copy that same blog post to your social accounts or for a guest post you’re doing in order to earn some backlinks.

Also, you want to make your main blog posts longer than your competitors and usually at least 2500 words or more. An example if this lawyers blog post on Personal Injury Timeline for a Car Accident Case.

This post has over 2500 words, has multiple embedded videos from YouTube, has external links to high authority sites and includes multiple images. Usually, you want to also include an infographic, but you could also create a 2nd related post that covers a different angle and a different set of keywords.

#1A – Build Backlinks via Guest Posting at Relevant High Authority Sites

Building or earning backlinks to your site is the #1 most important thing to do in order to build your law firms SEO rankings at Google. This is not an easy process at all and why its so important.

Buying links is against Googles guidelines, but if you create a good piece of content, a lot of websites want to give you a link in exchange for writing such a great piece of content.

So you need to create even more content for guest posts, and then do a link outreach program to find sites that will award you with an editorial link to a page within your site.

#2 – DO KEYWORD Research to find better keywords

Make sure your site is optimized for the best possible keywords. Doing keyword research is a very good idea anytime you want to do a new legal blog post.

You want to do research to see all the possible keywords related to your post and main keywords. Then you want to find keywords that are bringing in traffic with low competition if possible.

Then once you identify the best keywords, you want to use them in your blog posts in strategic ways in the Title, description, headers, body, etc.

Some of the best Keyword tools are SEM Rush and Google Keyword Planner. There are a ton of other keyword tools you can use but the key is using something to do some research and you probably will discover a bunch of keywords you never even considered using, but that could lead to some new quality traffic coming to your legal site.

*** 2019 Update —- Use Neil Patels free keyword research tool at https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest to find relevant keywords and long tail keywords that you can and should include within your content. This tool will give you an idea of how popular some keywords are and how much they cost on average at Google ads pay per click program for lawyers.

#3- Use Yoast SEO plugin & Optimize your TITLES and Descriptions

Titles and Descriptions are still very important for SEO and you need to make sure EACH and every page in your lawyer site has a unique and optimized Title and description.

The title tag is probably the most important part of your overall SEO strategy and it determines how search engines display each page. Your title should always include a relevant targeted keyword phrase, but keep it short and to the point. There’s no need to stuff the title full of SEO keyword phrases, doing that usually hurts more than it helps.

The Meta Description is what you see beneath each title in the search results. It has no bearing on your search rankings these days, but it can determine if someone will actually click on your listing. You need to grab the users attention and make sure you

Yoast SEO is the top WordPress SEO Plugin and helps you setup a variety of SEO settings and has a ton of built-in features that can help your SEO efforts. You can use this to optimize the Titles and Descriptions on the different pages.

*** 2019 Update…. You do NOT need to upgrade to the Pro version of this software. I use it, but dont find anything that really demands an upgrade. The internal linking feature is good, but it can be done manually pretty easy. The key with this SEO plugin, is to make sure that all of the settings are setup correctly.

#4- Do On Page SEO & Optimize Main Content (H1 and H2 Tags; Variations of Keywords)

The second most SEO relevant part of your page is the headline, or in coding terms, the “H1” tag. This tag is important for a few reasons.

First, Google gives it a lot of weight because of its prominence on your page. After all, it’s the one thing that every user will probably read because its so BIG.

You should tell your readers what the page is about and invoke some curiosity to keep them reading. You want to combine an H1 with a H2 sub-heading and try and get your main keyword that your focusing on, along with your geographic location.

Also you want to make sure that different variations of your keywords are included throughout the page.

If you have a page on “truck accidents,” you shouldn’t repeat “truck accidents” or truck accident lawyer excessively. Instead, use words like “truck crash accidents,” “truck wreck lawyer” “truck crashes,” and as many different variations as you can come up with.

Google is not dumb in any way, in fact you should just presume they are a straight up genius.

So you don’t want to do anything that is spammy or seems easy,. Things like repeating the same keywords over and over, or anything you think might have worked 5 years ago.

The only thing that really works now is making sure you have a lot of high-quality content, and that you interlink that content together and make sure you use a lot of different variations of your keywords. That combined with getting high-quality backlinks and doing something with social media should help improve your organic SEO rankings.

*** 2019 update – You want to focus on LSI related keywords and to make your page follow a theme. The best way to find what LSI related keywords that you should use on your post or page, is to do a Google search and at the bottom of the page, you will find a list of related searches that Google thinks are most related to your search. SO then you want to sprinkle these keywords into your content where they make sense.

You dont want to just put them one after another where there is no logic to them being on the page. You must create new content around them usually and this can be a huge help, because by doing this, you now increase your word count by 500-1000 words or more. You also might improve your pages dwell time, and then you should start ranking for more keywords if you sprinkle in these related keywords in the right way.

#5- Get More Social & Get More Social Signals to your site

Getting social signals tells Google that your site is being shared by others and is popular. So the easiest way to do this, is to make sure you have social media accounts setup such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, AVVO, YouTube, Google, Pinterest and any other social media account you think might help your law firm.

Then do facebook posts, adding videos, images and a link to your law firms site. Do tweets at Twitter and utilize as many social media accounts as you can. Then the key is getting people to share and like your content. The more this happens, the more Google will see that your being active and trusted by other users.

You want to get as many retweets, likes, views and everything else that goes with social media. The more content you can create, the more chances you have at people liking and sharing your content. You want to build all of your social media accounts over time, the key is making sure you keep them updated. You want to have some kind of automation, so that when you do a blog post, it will automatically update your Facebook and Twitter accounts.

#6- Improve Site SPEED & Performance

More and more Google talks about how important a factor that Site Speed is. The faster your site loads, the better for everyone, including your organic SEO rankings. Yet improving your overall sites speed is not always easy, and sometimes you can fix your speed issue, just to have something else create a problem.

So if your using WordPress, you need to use a good Speed and performance plugin such as W3 Cache or WP Super Cache.

Go Test Your Site with Google SPEED Tool
Download the W3 Cache WordPress Plugin
Download the WP Super Cache Plugin

#7- Site Security and making sure your site is locked down and SECURE

This is becoming a big deal and yes Russian Hackers are real! So are all other countries and who knows how they do it, or why they do it, but they do it constantly. SO you must have your site secured in multiple ways. There are some basic things you can do and then many more advanced things that really need to be done in order to lock down your site.

Even then its possible you can run into some kind of issue where you get hacked and malware is on your site. Usually if you have a good web host, that problem will be solved and almost never an issue, IF you take all the needed steps.

Site security for lawyers is part of the overall SEO strategy because if your site gets infected with malware or has any other kind of issue, it can have a negative effect on your overall SEO rankings and it can bring your site down for days.

WordPress is an excellent CMS and very popular, yet it seems to be very vulnerable to hackers. Ive seen more and more lawyer websites that get hacked and have this ugly message from Google…. “This Site is NOT SAFE or This Site May Harm Your Computer”…. Thats the last thing you want a client seeing when they visit your site.

Some WordPress Security Tips for Attorneys:

Download a WordPress Security Plugin like Bulletproof Security
Remove the default ADMIN user name and replace with unique name
Make sure you always update your WordPress Software & Plugins
Read more WordPress Security Tips for Lawyers

#8 – Have a Mobile Friendly Site

This goes without saying but your site must be mobile friendly and easy to read on any mobile device. Google has put a big emphasis on this and will tag a site that is mobile friendly, so you want to make sure you get that tag because otherwise a potential client might just decide not to even visit your site.

Mobile is more important than ever and is accounting for over 50% of traffic in most cases these days. Everyone is on a mobile phone and it’s getting easier to read sites, so people have no problem viewing your site on a mobile device unless of course, it is not mobile friendly, then for sure, they are leaving to your main rival’s site. So make sure you take all the steps needed to make your site mobile friendly and then some.

Most WordPress themes these days will be responsive and mobile friendly without much needing to be done. Yet you can also setup a more custom mobile site using a mobile plugin and creating a custom mobile home page for your legal website.

#9- Create more Videos of Lawyers:

Create Videos of Lawyers in the law firm talking about the different areas of practice. Videos are a form of content and the more videos you can create, the more content you will have to spread around. Sometimes adding a video to a blog post can make it come to life and compliment it well.

Then sometimes you can do a blog post just around the video. If you have a 30 second video of a partner talking about a latest case or practice area, you can embed the video into a blog post and add some content of the transcript of the video.

You can not do Video SEO without videos. You need videos in order to come up in the YouTube search results.

You need to setup a YouTube channel that links to the firms website, and then every time you create a video, you would upload it to YouTube, and then you will be able to easily embed the video into your legal site, blog or social media site.

#10- Create Customized Images & Optimize for SEO:

You should have customized images created for all of your blog posts, and then make sure they are optimized for SEO by adding keywords to the alt image tags. Your images can be found on Google image search if they are properly optimized. You can use a wordpress plugin that will help you optimize your images for SEO.

Creating different images to use is a good idea, and you can have an image for your blog post and other images for different social media sites. Some sites like Pinterest are all about images, so you will want to have a custom image created around your latest blog post, and then have an image that has the title of your post. Then when the user clicks on your image, it will goto that blog post.

Images are a good idea for multiple reasons and you should use one image for every 300-400 words of content. Images can make your blog post easier to read and its a good idea to use as much media as possible, so images, videos and infographics.

#11- Do a Press Release for your Law Firm:

Press Releases are not just for bigger firms and companies. Anyone can create a press release if you have something newsworthy. That’s the key, you have to have a newsworthy story with a catchy headline that will be accepted as a relevant news story. There are a number of different reasons a lawyer would do a press release including:

Launching of a new website
Introduction of a new practice area
New Lawyers joining the firm
Awards for any of the lawyers
Any kind of Charity Work the Firm does

Once you have a good newsworthy story with a catchy headline, then its a matter of putting the press release together and if done right and accepted, you can get your news story in front of a lot of potential media sites, including affiliate sites of bigger news sites like ABC and NBC.

This can be a big boost for both organic SEO and Local SEO For lawyers. The press release would have a link to your website from a lot of potential high ranked and trusted media sites. It would also have your firms NAP (Name, address and Phone #) and those citations could help your firms Local SEO marketing efforts.

LAWYER SEO IN 2019 CONCLUSION

Internet Marketing for Lawyers in 2019 is alive and well and there are a lot of things you can do to help promote your law firm better online. If done right, it can lead to a steady flow of new clients. The real key is creating new content for your website on a constant basis, not just plain text, but also customized videos, images, and infographics.

You want to then also do a link outreach program and find sites where you can do guest posts with a link back to your websites power pages.

With links, in general, you do NOT want to use keyword rich anchor text for your links. You want to use your brand name, which will be your law firm’s name as your anchor text and have these links go to your home page. \

Then you also want to get links to your subpages and blog posts and here you want to use a combination of anchor text including some blended keyword anchor text from some of your better link opportunities.

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23 Ways to Create Content for Lawyers

February 7, 2017 By lcourt3 Leave a Comment

Different Ways to Come up with Legal Content

Writing content sometimes is not easy and its pretty common to hit a wall and not write very much. Below is a great infographic with a bunch of different ways to come up with content.

These are solid ideas and its always a good idea to come up with new content for your lawyers site and blog. For Lawyers some ideas that arent on this list include * Creating a post on a statute, Creating a post around current legal events.

Legal Content Marketing

January 19, 2017 By lcourt3 Leave a Comment

Content Marketing for Lawyers

Legal SEO Content Services

SEO Marketing for Lawyers will NOT work without CONTENT. Not just any content either, you can not cut and paste from sites or take generic info that everyone else is using. You need to have someone write your content and make it unique to your firm and you need to create other forms of content.

Images, Infographics and Videos are all great things to create for your site for many different reasons. You can have one great custom image created, and do a post around that on a legal subject. You can create a video with a lawyer talking for 30 seconds and do a great blog post around that. Then that one video can not only be used on your site and facebook, but you can share it on many other top video sites including YouTube.

The bottom line is that content marketing for lawyers means that your creating Fresh Unique content around your main lawyer practice areas, and then promoting it in various ways. The more content you can create around your law firms practice areas, the more success online you will have.

ATTORNEY CONTENT MARKETING VIDEO

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You need content for a lot of different things these days including your website, blog and social media sites. Not to mention newsletters, micro sites, additional legal blogs and legal articles. We can help your legal practice with creating content for your existing practice areas and website pages and also creating content on a regular basis for your law firm blogs and social media sites.

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Evergreen Content

December 24, 2016 By lcourt3 Leave a Comment

EVERGREEN CONTENT FOR LAWYERS

Evergreen Content for lawyers is content that doesn’t go stale and is still relevant weeks, months, or possibly even years after it was put on your lawyer site. This type of content doesn’t immediately date itself like the news.

Evergreen content is the best possible content and it can bring traffic to your site, increase social media shares, and move you up searches for a long period of time. The long-term relevancy of evergreen content makes it able to continuously bring in visitors.

When we talk about a piece of content being “evergreen,” we mean that evergreen content is content that continues to be relevant long past its publication, so traffic grows over time.

So obviously you want all content to be evergreen, yet not all content is created equal and some things are not going to qualify, like latest news stuff that might change. Evergreen web content has (virtually) no expiration date and ideally will retain its value over the long-term. Anything written about this year’s presidential election, for example, is not evergreen content.

Your substantive pages are “evergreen content” that does not change over time, or changes very slowly. Examples include

practice area pages
Summaries of the law
Local court pages
Advice pages.

Our legal content writing staff can enhance your existing substantive content or create unique content from scratch.

We can potentially take an existing practice area page say on Personal Injury law and expand the page with more content, images and video, and also create subpages for different specific areas of personal injury law.

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Press Release Best Practices

December 20, 2016 By ctech2 Leave a Comment

Press Releases for Lawyers – Best Practices on Writing Press Release

Lawyer Press Releases – Best Practices

Write a catchy, interesting and keyword- focused headline.
Make the intro/opening engaging.
Write in laymen’s language. Avoid superlatives, jargon and excessive mentions of a brand name.
Make the release useable, word for word, if cut after the second paragraph.
Keep most paragraphs to below 30 words and the length no more than 650 words max.
Spell check and then read your news release aloud. Any typos or grammatical errors will ultimately lead to your news being discarded and can tarnish your reputation.
Repress the urge to use fancy fonts, colors, font styles and other text attributes in your news release. You’ll come off as an amateur.
Include relevant links for background information. Make it easy for journalists and news consumers to conduct further research.
Make it easy to share; include all your social networks.
Send only news releases that contain news!

Press releases represent a great way to engage in inbound marketing. No longer do you have to rely on a constantly churning media list to secure coverage and visibility. Today, your press release has thousands of opportunities to make a lasting impression online.

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CONTENT IS KING FOR LAWYERS

Content is the key these days, AS IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN. Its important that you have a lot of unique content created if you want any chance of being found on the search engines or having social media success. You need to have content in order to fill in your blogs and do social media posts. The more unique content you have, the better and this means videos as well.

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Press Release Checklist

December 19, 2016 By ctech2 Leave a Comment

Content Marketing Services for Lawyers – Press Release Checklist

Creating a press release for your law firm can have a few different benefits including improving your sites organic and local SEO rankings.

The press release alone isnt going to zoom you to #1 for a tough keyword, but it will help in a few different ways. For one, your press release will usually be submitted to numerous well established media sites that are highly ranked and trusted by Google. The link itself can be a benefit, but you can also get a Citation from these highly trusted sites, which can help your Google Local SEO Rankings.

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Focus on creating a news story which will suit the publication and audience you are targeting.
Create an interesting headline which will encourage the journalist or editor to read the whole release.

(Headlines are key for ALL Press Releases, but with some press release submissions, its more about getting the story submitted and approved online. Where some press releases are more for print vs. digital, old school days way!)
Include all the key points of the story in a brief opening paragraph.
Continue with additional paragraphs providing more information, in order of importance.
Keep the piece short, typically 300 words at most, using short sentences and paragraphs of 60 words at most.
Include your contact details in case further information is needed.
If necessary, add more detailed background information in a separate ‘note to editors’.
Write in the style of the publication, avoiding inappropriate jargon or overly technical language.
Consider including quotations to add color to the article.
Write ‘PRESS RELEASE’ across the top of the page and use a letterhead template if you have one.
Use double spaced lines and wide margins to make the text easy to edit.
If possible, include an interesting and relevant picture; check the publication’s requirements for print and what format you should use when sending it by email.
Check your spelling and any factual information.
Review whether the piece is interesting, in the right style, and could be cut at the end of any paragraph and published without further editing.

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CONTENT IS KING FOR LAWYERS

Content is the key these days, AS IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN. Its important that you have a lot of unique content created if you want any chance of being found on the search engines or having social media success. You need to have content in order to fill in your blogs and do social media posts. The more unique content you have, the better and this means videos as well.

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6 Steps to Creating Legal Content

December 10, 2016 By ctech2 Leave a Comment

WHAT IS LAWYER CONTENT MARKETING?

Content marketing for attorneys is a strategic legal marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action.

The bottom line is that content marketing for lawyers means that your creating Fresh Unique content around your main practice areas, and then promoting it in various ways.

STEPS TO CREATING CONTENT FOR LAWYER CONTENT MARKETING

Below are the steps involved with lawyer content marketing, from researching your topic, to creating your legal content to promoting it.

STEP #1 – Planning and Researching Your Topic

Use Google Keyword Planner to find keywords people are searching for and to use within your blog posts
Search TWITTER for popular topics related to your keyword
Do a Google search and find other sites that are ranking for your keywords
Create a list of the TOP Points you want to get across in your blog post

STEP #2 – WRITING THE ACTUAL CONTENT

Use short paragraphs that break up every 2-3 lines.
Use an IMAGE for every 300 words of text
Use SUB HEADERS to segment sections and make it easier to read
Create a compelling HEADLINE of about 50 characters
Make use of bulletpoints and lists
Spell Check!

STEP #3 – OPTIMIZING CONTENT FOR SEARCH

Aim for 1000-1500 word posts, which is the Google SEO Sweet Spot
Put your main keyword in your TITLE
Include your keyword in at least one H2 header
Place your SEO Keywords in your meta description

STEP #4 – MAKE IT SHAREABLE

Create a custom graphic that shows the title of your blog in an attractive way to increase shares on sites like Pinterest
Create an infographic related to your post and then include it in post, and use it in Pinterest
Include a video related to your subject and embed within post
Use Click to Tweet to include clickable tweets throughtout your blog post

STEP # 5 – PROMOTE YOUR CONTENT

Share your blog post on Facebook and make sure to use optimized image
Share on Twitter and Pinterest with cutom titles
Pin to relevant shared Pinterest boards to increase exposure
Share your blog post on LInkedIN as a status update in personal profile and business page
Share post on Google Plus
Consider doing Facebook Paid ads or LinkedIn ads for your blog post to promote it more

STEP #6 – CREATE MORE CONTENT

You can now create additional smaller pieces of content from your main piece of content including facebook posts, twitter posts and YouTube Videos
You should then also start planning your next piece of content creation for your Legal Content Marketing strategy to work. The more content you can create, the better your results will be.
You can create a series of blog posts around a certain legal subject.
Get creative and create videos around your content and subject areas, because really Videos are just another form of content.
Also create Images to use with your content and make sure those images are optimized for SEO.

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SEO For Lawyers in 2019

Is your lawyer website ranked well at Google for both organic and local search terms?

First a lawyer comic strip…..

Now back to the business of getting new clients….

If you want to get more new clients online, you have to make sure your site is set up right and that you are creating an ongoing series of content and getting links from other relevant websites.

Here are a few lawyer SEO tips to help your attorney website rank better in the Google search results.

Top 11 Attorney SEO Website Tips

Below are the top SEO tips for lawyers who want to try and do more with Internet marketing this year. Organic SEO, Local SEO, Video SEO, Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing, and Reputation Management are just a few of the things that you must do in 2019.

Top Tips for SEO Marketing in 2019 for Lawyers

#1- Have unique Longer Pieces of Content Created (2000 words PLUS)

*** This post is over 2500 words and will be 3500 once I add to it, like Im doing here!

The more content you create, the better your SEO chances will be, simple as that. Its key in 2019 to create longer blog posts that are over 1000 words long and contain images, videos and infographics whenever possible. 1500-3000 word posts are even better.

** April 2019 Update:

You need to create a LOT of unique content for

* Blog Posts

* Guest Posts

* Social Media Posts

Also, you want to make your main blog posts longer than your competitors and usually at least 2500 words or more. An example if this lawyers blog post on Personal Injury Timeline for a Car Accident Case.

#1A – Build Backlinks via Guest Posting at Relevant High Authority Sites

Building or earning backlinks to your site is the #1 most important thing to do in order to build your law firms SEO rankings at Google. This is not an easy process at all and why its so important.

Buying links is against Googles guidelines, but if you create a good piece of content, a lot of websites want to give you a link in exchange for writing such a great piece of content.

So you need to create even more content for guest posts, and then do a link outreach program to find sites that will award you with an editorial link to a page within your site.

#2 – DO KEYWORD Research to find better keywords

Make sure your site is optimized for the best possible keywords. Doing keyword research is a very good idea anytime you want to do a new legal blog post.

You want to do research to see all the possible keywords related to your post and main keywords. Then you want to find keywords that are bringing in traffic with low competition if possible.

Then once you identify the best keywords, you want to use them in your blog posts in strategic ways in the Title, description, headers, body, etc.

#3- Use Yoast SEO plugin & Optimize your TITLES and Descriptions

Titles and Descriptions are still very important for SEO and you need to make sure EACH and every page in your lawyer site has a unique and optimized Title and description.

The Meta Description is what you see beneath each title in the search results. It has no bearing on your search rankings these days, but it can determine if someone will actually click on your listing. You need to grab the users attention and make sure you

Yoast SEO is the top WordPress SEO Plugin and helps you setup a variety of SEO settings and has a ton of built-in features that can help your SEO efforts. You can use this to optimize the Titles and Descriptions on the different pages.

#4- Do On Page SEO & Optimize Main Content (H1 and H2 Tags; Variations of Keywords)

The second most SEO relevant part of your page is the headline, or in coding terms, the “H1” tag. This tag is important for a few reasons.

First, Google gives it a lot of weight because of its prominence on your page. After all, it’s the one thing that every user will probably read because its so BIG.

You should tell your readers what the page is about and invoke some curiosity to keep them reading. You want to combine an H1 with a H2 sub-heading and try and get your main keyword that your focusing on, along with your geographic location.

Also you want to make sure that different variations of your keywords are included throughout the page.

If you have a page on “truck accidents,” you shouldn’t repeat “truck accidents” or truck accident lawyer excessively. Instead, use words like “truck crash accidents,” “truck wreck lawyer” “truck crashes,” and as many different variations as you can come up with.

Google is not dumb in any way, in fact you should just presume they are a straight up genius.

So you don’t want to do anything that is spammy or seems easy,. Things like repeating the same keywords over and over, or anything you think might have worked 5 years ago.

#5- Get More Social & Get More Social Signals to your site

#6- Improve Site SPEED & Performance

So if your using WordPress, you need to use a good Speed and performance plugin such as W3 Cache or WP Super Cache.

Go Test Your Site with Google SPEED Tool

Download the W3 Cache WordPress Plugin

Download the WP Super Cache Plugin

#7- Site Security and making sure your site is locked down and SECURE

Even then its possible you can run into some kind of issue where you get hacked and malware is on your site. Usually if you have a good web host, that problem will be solved and almost never an issue, IF you take all the needed steps.

Site security for lawyers is part of the overall SEO strategy because if your site gets infected with malware or has any other kind of issue, it can have a negative effect on your overall SEO rankings and it can bring your site down for days.

Some WordPress Security Tips for Attorneys:

Remove the default ADMIN user name and replace with unique name

Make sure you always update your WordPress Software & Plugins

Read more WordPress Security Tips for Lawyers

#8 – Have a Mobile Friendly Site

Most WordPress themes these days will be responsive and mobile friendly without much needing to be done. Yet you can also setup a more custom mobile site using a mobile plugin and creating a custom mobile home page for your legal website.

#9- Create more Videos of Lawyers:

Create Videos of Lawyers in the law firm talking about the different areas of practice. Videos are a form of content and the more videos you can create, the more content you will have to spread around. Sometimes adding a video to a blog post can make it come to life and compliment it well.

Then sometimes you can do a blog post just around the video. If you have a 30 second video of a partner talking about a latest case or practice area, you can embed the video into a blog post and add some content of the transcript of the video.

You can not do Video SEO without videos. You need videos in order to come up in the YouTube search results.

You need to setup a YouTube channel that links to the firms website, and then every time you create a video, you would upload it to YouTube, and then you will be able to easily embed the video into your legal site, blog or social media site.

#10- Create Customized Images & Optimize for SEO:

Images are a good idea for multiple reasons and you should use one image for every 300-400 words of content. Images can make your blog post easier to read and its a good idea to use as much media as possible, so images, videos and infographics.

#11- Do a Press Release for your Law Firm:

Launching of a new website

Introduction of a new practice area

New Lawyers joining the firm

Awards for any of the lawyers

Any kind of Charity Work the Firm does

Once you have a good newsworthy story with a catchy headline, then its a matter of putting the press release together and if done right and accepted, you can get your news story in front of a lot of potential media sites, including affiliate sites of bigger news sites like ABC and NBC.

LAWYER SEO IN 2019 CONCLUSION

You want to then also do a link outreach program and find sites where you can do guest posts with a link back to your websites power pages.

With links, in general, you do NOT want to use keyword rich anchor text for your links. You want to use your brand name, which will be your law firm’s name as your anchor text and have these links go to your home page. \

Then you also want to get links to your subpages and blog posts and here you want to use a combination of anchor text including some blended keyword anchor text from some of your better link opportunities.

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