Florida Lawyer On Site Search Engine Optimization
April 18th, 2012 by adminCould a Law Firm internet marketing agency help increase the amount of targeted traffic to your Florida law firm website? An agency with in-depth understanding of how search engines work and the tactics most effective for on-site search engine optimization will help you succeed online, no doubt about it.
If your desire is to have higher rankings for your legal website, you have probably already determined that you need to implement a lawyer search engine optimization campaign that is powerful and effective. The following on-site and external tactics that you must be using are described below.
On-Site Optimization
The fundamentals of on-site optimization are so simple, yet too many website owners fail to implement them. By making simple improvements to their websites and ensuring that they are properly optimized, the majority of our clients experience considerable improvement in their online ranking. Here are the top methods to improve your ranking:
Website Title Tags
Title tags should outline your practice location and be keyword rich. Top niche practice areas should be included in your title tag, (i.e. criminal defense lawyer, criminal defense attorney). Your most important key terms or phrases should be included within the first 65 characters in your page title, as this is what top search engines value most. You can place more than 65 characters in your page title, just be aware that the first 65 are crucial for ranking. Here is an example:
Orlando criminal lawyer, federal crimes attorney | Taylor Law (62 characters)
Website Meta Tags
The meta description tag is the most important tag within your meta tags. Today, keyword tags are no longer valued by search engines, although you won’t be penalized if you do decide to use this tag.
Website Meta Description Tags
The description you place in your meta description tag may be used by search engines to display when your website comes up in search results. Additionally, Google may also use a snippet from page content as the description, or occasionally a relevant inbound link to content on your website.
Website Content
The importance of proper optimization of the content on your website cannot be stressed enough. In the design of your website, the content must be high quality and search friendly. Many people make the mistake of writing content targeted specifically for the search engines, when it is just as important (if not more so) to write so that your content offers value to your readers and entices them to remain on your website. Google (and other search engines) now factor in customer satisfaction when ranking websites, and can analyze how long visitors remain on your website along with other data. In addition, the more valuable and informative your visitor finds your content, the more likely he/she will become a new lead or client.
Keywords are highly important in your website pages, but you don’t want to go overboard. In most cases, the home page content of your website will discuss all of the areas (using major keywords) that you promote throughout your website. Then, the “inner” or sub pages will focus specifically on niche practice areas. For example, if your primary niche is criminal defense law, your sub pages may be smaller niches that fall under criminal defense law, such as white collar crimes, DUI, shoplifting, theft, sex crimes, robbery, etc. These pages (usually one page per topic) should focus primarily on those specific key terms, and mention the cities in which you offer your services several times. Be sure in developing your content that you use relevant keywords and phrases that a potential client might use to find your services.
Choosing Website Domain Names
Choosing a domain name that is keyword rich and still represents your brand can be tricky, but a keyword rich domain name can help substantially for increasing your rankings with the search engines. For example, if your major key terms that you want to rank for are “Orlando criminal defense lawyer,” a domain such as Orlandocriminaldefenselaw.com or even Orlando-Criminal-Defense-Law.com would be ideal. Try to obtain a domain that includes the words Orlando, criminal or law in it when possible.
Choosing Website Sub Page Names
Like your home page, it’s important to use keywords in your sub page names as well. For example, a sub page that focuses on white collar crimes should have a page name such as Orlandocriminaldefenselaw.com/white-collar-crimes.html rather than Orlandocriminaldefenselaw.com/white.html. Again, search engines pick up on these key phrases, helping the sub pages within your website to rank better. Always keep in mind that wherever you can use keywords (page titles, meta descriptions, content) do so, as major search engines like Google value keywords highly.
Link Building
A high quality link building campaign requires aggressive link building, a topic which we will cover in a future blog post. Creating a Google Local Business Center listing is also essential, as this listing can help you rank higher in local search results. Dataflurry is a leading Florida lawyer search engine marketing firm.
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